"Jason L. Buberel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Instead, in order to achieve my goal I would have to restore to that 
> backup, and rely on the contents of the archive_logs to have the 
> recovery process return me to the selected xid PITR.

Correct.

> So is there any way to 'trick' or force the server to forget what it 
> thinks 'now' is and instead to step back to the selected xid and make 
> that the new version of 'now'?

No.  As an example, would you expect such a trick to reverse the effects
of a DROP TABLE?  Or even just a single DELETE?  That would mean we
could *never* free any storage.

                        regards, tom lane

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