Re: Step 8 does not perform as documented

On Wed, 2021-03-03 at 16:58 +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> Under the steps of Recovering with continuous logging, Step 8 says:
> "Start the server. The server will go into recovery mode and proceed to read
> through the archived WAL files it needs. Should the recovery be terminated
> because of an external error, the server can simply be restarted and it will
> continue recovery. Upon completion of the recovery process, the server will
> remove recovery.signal (to prevent accidentally re-entering recovery mode
> later) and then commence normal database operations."
>
> The server went into recovery mode as expected. However, at the completion
> of the recovery process, the server did *NOT* remove recovery.signal. Nor
> did the server commend normal database operations. I manually shut down the
> server, then removed recovery.signal and restarted the server, but then the
> server recover _past_ my recovery_target_time. I am not sure why.

The log messages should tell you what is going on.

Perhaps you used a wrong time zone.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe