Point-in-Time Recovery - CI/CD Glossary Definition
Point-in-time recovery restores a database to any exact moment by replaying the write-ahead log onto a base backup.
Point-in-time recovery (PITR) restores a database to any specific moment by replaying the write-ahead log onto a base backup.
PITR is the safety net when a bad migration ships: instead of restoring the whole last backup, you recover to the second before the migration ran.
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