"Just Someone" <just.some@gmail.com> writes:
> The documentation say that a recovery.conf file is needed for the
> restore. My tests indicate that I can just restore the backup, copy
> over the latest WAL files and launch postgres. Is that ok? Can I just
> use this way?
If by "latest" you mean "all the WAL files since the backup was made",
it'd probably work.
regards, tom lane