> > I did the following > 1. Enabled archiving > 2. Executed SQL's 3. Shutdown 4. copied data directory (including the > pgstats.stat under global) and archive directory under backup/1 > repeated 2,3,4 once more > So now i have 2 backup directories. > Now i created recovery.conf under backup/1/data. It has recovery command > copying from backup1 archive. > Next i renamed pagstat.stat under backup1/data/global as pgstat_1.stat. > Next i copied pgstat.stat from backup 2 into backup 1 (under the usual > global directory). > Pointed the server to backup1 data directory and started it. Surprisingly it > works with no complaints about wrong pgstat.stats >
>Do you have only one archive set up? What do you mean when you mention >"backup1" archive?
>What kind of complaints did you see when you did in past? I am not >aware of such errors; am I missing some?
I am sorry for being unclear. directories are
/backup1/data
/backup1/archive
and
/backup2/data
/backup2/archive
backup1 has data and archive directories copied after 1st shutdown
backup2 has data and archive directories copied after 2nd shutdown
Now i created recovery.conf in backup1/data and i replaced pgstats.stat from backup2 in backup1 (in data/global)
Now i start Server pointing to backup1, where it uses recovery.conf to rollback to database snapshot after first shutdown
I expected a failure because pgstats.stat do not reflect statistics of snapshot created from backup1 directory (1st shutdown) but of backup2 (2nd shutdown)
