Re: Clarification when using Continous Archiving in 8.4 - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Clarification when using Continous Archiving in 8.4
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Msg-id 20130810020614.GE30558@momjian.us
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In response to Re: Clarification when using Continous Archiving in 8.4  (Jan Lentfer <Jan.Lentfer@web.de>)
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On Fri, Aug  9, 2013 at 10:20:13AM +0200, Jan Lentfer wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Aug 2013 21:36:35 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
>     On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 11:30:54AM -0500, Nestor A. Diaz wrote:
>
>         Hello People, In reference to my last post , my question is: It is
>         possible to recover more (subsequent) WAL files when I have already
>         recover a postgres 8.4 database using a PITR ? I have read on some
>         places that it's not possible and I want to confirm that, is it
>         possible in 9.1 ?
>
>     I am confused.   You did recovery, and then you want to do more WAL
>     files past your stop point?
>
>     -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for
everythingto be true. + 
>
> With 8.4 (up to 9.0) you have to restart the PITR over and over again, if you
> "missed" the desired point. Starting with 9.1 there is pause_at_recovery_target
> (). Is that what you mean?
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/interactive/recovery-target-settings.html

Yes, that is the right information.

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