I am testing PITR…. I am looking for recovery.conf parameters where you can recovery the WALs available in the restore_command but do not complete recovery. I want to be able to connect to the database and check database in read only and if I am not there yet, I will feed more WALs in the archive directory and resume recovery. I would like to prevent multiple base restorations. I want to roll forward with WALs but check in between. Also, I do not want to set up replication standby.
Is it possible? If so, could you tell me what are the relevant recovery.conf params?
Thanks,
Murthy
Hi Murthy, look at parameter "pause_at_recovery_target" and "recovery_target_time" with these parameters in the recovery.conf you could reach a point in the timeline to recover the database and then see if it's all ok and then finish the recovery with pg_xlog_replay_resume. If you want instead continue the recovery you have to stop the backend and change the parameter of recovery_target_time in the recovery.conf and restart the postmaster.