On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 12:48:34PM -0700, Lists wrote: > Whatever we do, we need the ability to create a point-in-time history. > We commonly use our archival dumps for audit, testing, and debugging > purposes. I don't think PG + WAL provides this type of capability. So at > the moment we're down to: You can recover WAL files up until the point in time specified in the restore file See, for example http://opensourcedbms.com/dbms/how-to-do-point-in-time-recovery-with-postgresql-9-2-pitr-3/ #recovery_target_time = '' # e.g. '2004-07-14 22:39:00 EST' -- rgds Stephen