Re: recovery_target_time ignored or recovery alwaysrecovers to end of WAL

Harrumph -

I downloaded the latest xlogdump source, and built/installed it against
my 8.2.4 source tree. When I execute it however, I am informed that all
of my WAL files (either the 'active' copies in pg_xlog or the 'archived'
copies in my /pgdata/archive_logs dir) appear to be malformed:

$ /opt/postgres-8.2.4/bin/xlogdump --port 54824 --host 127.0.0.1 --user
postgres ../../../archive_logs/*
../../../archive_logs/000000010000000F0000007C:
Bogus page magic number D05E at offset 0
invalid record length at F/7C00001C
../../../archive_logs/000000010000000F0000007C.00550700.backup:
Partial page of 241 bytes ignored
../../../archive_logs/000000010000000F0000007D:
Bogus page magic number D05E at offset 0
invalid record length at F/7D00001C
../../../archive_logs/000000010000000F0000007D.0006C01C.backup:
Partial page of 241 bytes ignored

Which does not help particularly much :)

I'll keep plugging away at this - perhaps my problem in setting the
database state to a PITR is related to timezones or timestamp formatting?

-jason

Tom Lane wrote:
> Jason, if you can't figure it out you might grab xlogviewer
> http://pgfoundry.org/projects/xlogviewer/
> and see what it says the timestamps of the commit records in your WAL
> files are.
>