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Re: Rollback using WAL files?


  • From: Florian Weimer <fweimer(at)bfk(dot)de>
  • To: "M.A. Oude Kotte" <marc(at)solcon(dot)nl>
  • Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
  • Subject: Re: Rollback using WAL files?
  • Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:59:32 +0100
  • Message-id: <82hcud911n(dot)fsf(at)mid(dot)bfk(dot)de>

* M. A. Oude Kotte:

> I'm running a production/development database using PostgreSQL 8.1 on a
> Debian server. Due to some bad code in one of our applications who use
> this database, some of the data was modified incorrectly the last few
> days. The idea is that I would like to restore the entire database as
> much as possible, meaning I would like to undo all transactions that
> were performed on it.

In theory, this should be possible (especially if you haven't switched
off full page writes).  But I don't know a ready-made solution for
this kind of task.

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Florian Weimer                <fweimer(at)bfk(dot)de>
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