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help / color / mirror / Atom feedFrom: David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
To: Subramanian,Ramachandran <ramachandran.subramanian@alte-leipziger.de>
Cc: pgsql-novice@lists.postgresql.org <pgsql-novice@lists.postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Very basic question about Archive logs
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2026 05:30:24 -0700
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On Thursday, March 26, 2026, Subramanian,Ramachandran <
ramachandran.subramanian@alte-leipziger.de> wrote:
> Further more, if I execute the PIT-recovery On Tuesday at 0005 Hours and
> specify a Target recovery time of Monday 2300 Hours, then Postgres will
> look at the active logs and any archive logs ( if it does not already exist
> in the active logs ) that were written between Tuesday 0005 Hours and
> Monday 2300 Hours and use these logs to Undo all the changes to the current
> Database. Is my understanding correct?
>
> There is no rolling back. You deploy the base backup first to 0100
Monday, then it would apply the WAL up to the target time.
David J.
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