On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 10:38:45 +0100, Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com> wrote:
>
> Speaking as a DBA, what I usually want to do is restore to "immediately before
> I started the payroll calculation". An actual wall-clock time is mostly
> irrelevant to me.
For long running transactions where you want to recover as much as possible,
one might also want to recover up until just before a specific transaction
committed (as opposed to started).