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Re:Difference between running Postgres for yourself and for ... by Doxin on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @03:00AM (#41043338)
But if there has been no activity you surely can just pick the most recent log that's older than the time the user picked?
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Re:Difference between running Postgres for yourself and for ... by Tostino on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @08:42AM (#41045359)
How do you know the WAL was not lost during transmission, or the server crashed before transferring the WAL even though there were writes after the last WAL you have in your backup?

That's why.

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