Re: PITR - recovery to a particular transaction

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Yea, my question is if you choose "after", do you get everything that
> > happens until the "after" transaction commits, or just when it begins. 
> > If I stop after xid 125, and xid 126 starts and stops before 125
> > commits, does 126 get restored?
> 
> Yes.  You don't get to be selective about what to keep: it's everything
> up to a certain time instant, and nothing after that.  Stopping by XID
> is just a different way of identifying what that time instant is.
> 
> BTW, stopping "before" an XID actually means stopping just before its
> commit or abort record, so transactions that ended before it did will
> be included in the recovery.

OK, I added a mention of this in the docs.

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