Re: Extract transactions from wals ??

Rob Sargent <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> On Nov 21, 2019, at 9:35 AM, Marc Millas <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Laurenz,
> 
> 
> I was writing select from ""table"" as a template. We have to do this for a bunch of tables.
> So, to my understanding, what you suggest is to PITR up to the first timestamp, extract all meaningfull tables, and then pitr to the second timestamp
> so as to be able to script a kind of "diff" between the 2 to get what I want.
> 
> Yes ?
> 
> Marc MILLAS
> Senior Architect
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> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 5:16 PM Laurenz Albe <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> On Thu, 2019-11-21 at 17:07 +0100, Marc Millas wrote:
> > you say "extract the data you need"
> > That is exactly the point of my question, as the PITR step was obvious.
> > How to guess "what is the data" I need ??
> 
> Well, you asked for the contents of a table AS OF TIMESTAMP <something>.
> 
> That means you know which table and which timestamp.
> 
> So restore the PostgreSQL cluster to that timestamp, connect
> and SELECT from the table.
> 
> Yours,
> Laurenz Albe
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> Cybertec | https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com <https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/>
> 

Are you by any chance logging sql at a sufficient level of detail to allow a restore to PIT and sql replay?
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