How do you recover a postgres db?

Mark McWilliams <mark.mcwilliams@mindspring.com> writes:

The documentation is non-existent. Can someone tell me or point me to
how to do a recovery? This is the only thing keeping me from using
PostgreSQL over Oracle.

What do you mean by "recovery"? I can think of at least three
possibilities:

(1) Restore from backup: simply feed the output from 'pg_dump' to
'psql' as the PG superuser.

(2) Point-in-time recovery after a restore: PG doesn't do it yet.

(3) Starting up the database after a system crash: just do it. PG
will generally recover up to the last committed transaction.

-Doug
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