Ideally, if a user wants to run an AOST RESTORE on non-revision history backups, they should be able to gather the proper start times from a SHOW BACKUP stmt. Currently, this is hard during the following cases:
SHOW BACKUP does not display the time that an AOST RESTORE can be used on a full backup w/o revision history, as the start_time is left null. E.g.
During an ad-hoc chain of backups w/o revision history, the start time displayed in SHOW BACKUP may not match the actual precision required to find that given backup.
Once these UX papercuts are addressed, this docs issue should get addressed.
Closing this issue due to the fact that AOST RESTORE on non-revision history backups should use the end time from a SHOW BACKUP statement. Verified that this worked in 22.2.0.
Ideally, if a user wants to run an AOST RESTORE on non-revision history backups, they should be able to gather the proper start times from a SHOW BACKUP stmt. Currently, this is hard during the following cases:
Once these UX papercuts are addressed, this docs issue should get addressed.
Jira issue: CRDB-18729