On Thu, 2019-11-21 at 14:50 +0100, Marc Millas wrote:
> due to a set of bugs and wrong manip, an inappropriate update have been done into a production DB.
> After that, quite a long set of valuables inserts and updates have been done and needs to be kept.
> Obviously getting a backup and applying pitr will get us just before the offending update.
> Now, we need to find a way of extracting, either from the ex prod db, or from the wals, the "good" transactions to be
ableto re-apply them.
>
> This did already happen on a Prod Oracle DB, and recovering was possible with a :
> select * from table_name AS OF TIMESTAMP TO_TIMESTAMP('09052019 0900','MMDDYYYY HH24MI');
> to get most things done after the problem.
> As we are currently moving out of Oracle, we must prove to the business people that our new postgres env is fine.
> So, ... any idea ?
Sure.
Restore a backup and perform point-in-time-recovery.
Then extract the data you need.
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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