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Re: lost data, possible playback?





--On torsdag, december 06, 2007 12.22.45 -0500 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

Palle Girgensohn <girgen(at)pingpong(dot)net> writes:
Is the real reason for the negative answer that there is a "hole" in the
pg_xlogs from 3 am - 9 am?

That's half of it.  The other half is that what you have from 3am is a
pg_dump, not a filesystem-level snapshot of the database, and you'd need
the latter to be able to replay the WAL log against.

OK, my assumptions where correct. Thanks.

/Palle




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