On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 10:08:12AM -0800, Jeff Janes wrote:
> Doing PITR in 9.2.1, the system claims that it reached a consistent
> recovery state immediately after redo starts.
> This leads to it various mysterious failures, when it should instead
> throw a "requested recovery stop point is before consistent recovery
> point" error.
> (If you are unlucky, I think it might even silently start up in a
> corrupt state.)
I observed a similar problem with 9.2. Despite a restore_command that failed
every time, startup from a hot backup completed. At the time, I suspected a
mistake on my part.