Thread: Questions regarding generating the WAL File.

Questions regarding generating the WAL File.

From
"Dhaval Shah"
Date:
If I put a postgres 8.2 in an archive mode, it starts logging the WAL
files. The db starts the WAL File from 000010000001.gz and continually
increments the number.

Is there a control on 8.2 where I can indicate the number of the WAL
file to start from?

On the reverse, can I indicate to a db in recovery mode to start
consuming WAL Files from a particular number?

Regards
Dhaval Shah

Re: Questions regarding generating the WAL File.

From
Alan Hodgson
Date:
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 14:23, "Dhaval Shah" <dhaval.shah.m@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On the reverse, can I indicate to a db in recovery mode to start
> consuming WAL Files from a particular number?
>

The recovery process is documented at
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/continuous-archiving.html#BACKUP-PITR-RECOVERY

The short answer, I believe, is no, but you can tell it to stop
recovering at a certain point in time.

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