Re: Point in Time Recovery

On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 22:19, Tom Lane wrote:

> To have a consistent recovery at all, you must replay the log starting
> from a checkpoint before the backup began and extending to the time that
> the backup finished.  You only get to decide where to stop after that
> point.
> 

So the situation is: 
- You must only stop recovery at a point in time (in the logs) after the
backup had completed.

No way to enforce that currently, apart from procedurally. Not exactly
frequent, so I think I just document that and move on, eh?

Thanks for your help,

Best regards, Simon Riggs