Re: how is pitr replay interruption time determined? - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Robert Treat
Subject Re: how is pitr replay interruption time determined?
Date
Msg-id 200708281739.34094.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net
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In response to Re: how is pitr replay interruption time determined?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: how is pitr replay interruption time determined?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Monday 27 August 2007 19:17, Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> > LOG:  database system was interrupted while in recovery at log time
> > 2007-07-30 19:17:37 EDT
> >
> > I am curious how this date is determined by postgres/pitr?
>
> It's the update timestamp in pg_control, which in essence is going to be
> the completion time of the last checkpoint.  If the crash was during WAL
> recovery, as it seems to be, it'd be the time the last "restart"
> checkpoint was made.
>

Is there some way to force checkpoints on a db doing wal replay?

Also, I would think at a minimum that the last "restart" checkpoint would be
akin to when the db was last started, but looking at my replay instance I
see:

pg_control last modified:             Mon Aug 27 12:12:55 2007
Time of latest checkpoint:            Mon Jul 30 19:17:37 2007

The first date is around the time I restarted the instance, the second is
still a mystery to me. Perhaps I am misinterpreting your respone?

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Robert Treat
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