Barman restore command behavior w.r.t PITR

Question

I have setup the Backup via rsync/SSH with WAL streaming (Scenario 2b as mentioned in barman docs) architecture with a single PostgreSQL and Barman.

I am trying to understand how PITR works with barman recover command. What would be the expected behavior if one were to specify the current time for --target-time when issuing a recover command. Would it recover up to whatever WALs barman has last received starting from the backup time up to the current time?

Thanks

Answer 1

For others who might have the same question (given the docs are not clear on this) i found the answer & it is as i expected.

Yes it does recover up to whatever WALs barman has last received starting from the backup time up to the current time.

Please see below console snippet for reference,

barman@4b412c1875cd:~$ date
Sat Aug  8 02:47:13 UTC 2020
barman@4b412c1875cd:~$ barman recover --target-time "2020-08-08 02:31:00+00:00" postgres-source-db 20200801T030001 /var/log/barman/TESTRESTOREFORTEST 
Starting local restore for server postgres-source-db using backup 20200801T030001
Destination directory: /var/log/barman/TESTRESTOREFORTEST
Doing PITR. Recovery target time: '2020-08-08 02:31:00+00:00'
Copying the base backup.
Copying required WAL segments.
Generating recovery configuration
Identify dangerous settings in destination directory.

Recovery completed (start time: 2020-08-08 02:50:46.538480, elapsed time: 1 second)

Your PostgreSQL server has been successfully prepared for recovery!
barman@4b412c1875cd:~$ 

Thanks