On Wed, 2021-03-03 at 16:58 +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote: > Under the steps of Recovering with continuous logging, Step 8 says: > "Start the server. The server will go into recovery mode and proceed to read > through the archived WAL files it needs. Should the recovery be terminated > because of an external error, the server can simply be restarted and it will > continue recovery. Upon completion of the recovery process, the server will > remove recovery.signal (to prevent accidentally re-entering recovery mode > later) and then commence normal database operations." > > The server went into recovery mode as expected. However, at the completion > of the recovery process, the server did *NOT* remove recovery.signal. Nor > did the server commend normal database operations. I manually shut down the > server, then removed recovery.signal and restarted the server, but then the > server recover _past_ my recovery_target_time. I am not sure why.
The log messages should tell you what is going on. Perhaps you used a wrong time zone. Yours, Laurenz Albe
