Re: recovery_target_time and standby_mode - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 11/12/2014 10:06 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
>> hat *appears* to be happening is that the pause_at_recovery_target,
>> > followed by the restart, on the replica causes it to advance one commit
>> > on timeline 1.  But *not all the time*; this doesn't happen in my
>> > pgbench-based tests.
>> >
>> > There's a workaround for the user (they just restore the replica to 5
>> > minutes earlier), but I'm thinking this is a minor bug somewhere.
> I'm not sure what's going on here, but keep in mind that when you
> restart the replica, it's going to back up to the most recent
> restartpoint and begin replication from there, not from the point it
> was at when you shut down.

Except that in the problem case, it appears to be going *forwards*.
What would cause that?

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