On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 15:03, Joachim Wieland wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 11:13:34AM +0000, Simon Riggs wrote: > > The timeline code only comes into effect when you request an archive > > recovery. If you do not, it has no way of knowing it "should have". > > Ok. However these details should be added to the docs as well. > At least a short warning should show up in 22.3.3 7. >
I agree. I'm thinking of other solutions/options also. Please feel free to suggest one. > > > Once you have brought up a database in timeline N+1, you can't use it as > > the base to recover to a point in timeline N because the data file > > contents cannot be trusted to be identical to the way they were in > > timeline N. > > You mean "in timeline N ... to a point in timeline N+1", don't you? > Specifically not. The point is: you can't go back in time. Recovery is a rollforward operation, so you must start at an earlier point and rollforwards from there. -- Best Regards, Simon Riggs ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly