Re: PITR potentially broken in 9.2 - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Noah Misch
Subject Re: PITR potentially broken in 9.2
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Msg-id 20121128042728.GB26990@tornado.leadboat.com
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In response to PITR potentially broken in 9.2  (Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: PITR potentially broken in 9.2
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On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 10:08:12AM -0800, Jeff Janes wrote:
> Doing PITR in 9.2.1, the system claims that it reached a consistent
> recovery state immediately after redo starts.
> This leads to it various mysterious failures, when it should instead
> throw a "requested recovery stop point is before consistent recovery
> point" error.
> (If you are unlucky, I think it might even silently start up in a
> corrupt state.)

I observed a similar problem with 9.2.  Despite a restore_command that failed
every time, startup from a hot backup completed.  At the time, I suspected a
mistake on my part.

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