May 2018
Intermediate to advanced
576 pages
30h 25m
English
PostgreSQL is designed to require very minimal information to perform a recovery. We'll try hard to wrap all the details up for you:
There is a file named backup_label in the data directory of the base backup. If you want to know the start and stop WAL locations of the base backup, look for a .backup file in the archive.
Recovery then starts to apply changes from the starting WAL location ...