>>But, if you do PITR using the same directory (which I haven't), I
>>think you would need to somehow replace the stats with the ones you
>>want, may be from your backup of the same (that is, of
>>pg_stat/*.stat), though I am not sure if that would be correct. I
>>doubt if WAL replay (as in a consistent recovery mechanism :-) )
>>accounts for the stats. I guess stats are not WAL logged (like changes
>>to table data) since they are managed using temporary files in
>>pg_stat_temp and hence may not be recoverable using WAL replay to a
>>particular state using PITR. but I may be wrong.