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From Florian Weimer
Subject Re: Rollback using WAL files?
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In response to Rollback using WAL files?  ("M.A. Oude Kotte" <marc@solcon.nl>)
Responses Re: Rollback using WAL files?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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* M. A. Oude Kotte:

> I'm running a production/development database using PostgreSQL 8.1 on a
> Debian server. Due to some bad code in one of our applications who use
> this database, some of the data was modified incorrectly the last few
> days. The idea is that I would like to restore the entire database as
> much as possible, meaning I would like to undo all transactions that
> were performed on it.

In theory, this should be possible (especially if you haven't switched
off full page writes).  But I don't know a ready-made solution for
this kind of task.

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