Re: PITR and instance without any activity

From: Adrien Nayrat <adrien(dot)nayrat(at)anayrat(dot)info>
To: Torsten Förtsch <tfoertsch123(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL General <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PITR and instance without any activity
Date: 2023-01-11 10:26:00
Message-ID: dd87f8f4-924f-7a10-fab6-5f41b08e4f17@anayrat.info
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On 1/9/23 11:23, Torsten Förtsch wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 9, 2023 at 10:59 AM Adrien Nayrat
> <adrien(dot)nayrat(at)anayrat(dot)info <mailto:adrien(dot)nayrat(at)anayrat(dot)info>> wrote:
>
>
> * We can't perform PITR on a cluster without any activity since 13
> * It seems creating restore point doesn't record a timestamp in wal.
>
> I have a cron job that runs this every 5 minutes:
>
> SELECT txid_current() WHERE
> (pg_last_committed_xact()).timestamp+'5min'::INTERVAL < now()
>
>  Combine that with a suitable value for archive_timeout.

Hello,

I don't get how it could be useful ?
When we perform PITR, we don't know if there was activity or not.

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Adrien NAYRAT

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