Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> Currently, recovery loops until end of xlogs. There is no exit condition
> from the loop. There is not currently a timestamp on the xlogs -
> anywhere apart from the file date on each xlog.
Sure there is: every transaction commit record (and I think abort as
well) carries a timestamp. This was put in with PITR in mind in the
very beginning.
regards, tom lane