CREATE BARRIER CREATE BARRIER 7 SQL - Language Statements CREATE BARRIER create a new barrier CREATE BARRIER barrier_name CREATE BARRIER is new SQL command specific to Postgres-XL that creates a new XLOG record on each node of the cluster consistently. Essentially a barrier is a consistent point in the cluster that you can recover to. Note that these are currently created manually, not autoatically. Without barriers, if you recover an individual component, it may be possible that it is not consistent with the other nodes depending on when it was committed. A barrier is created via a 2PC-like mechanism from a remote Coordinator in 3 phases with a prepare, execute and ending phases. A new recovery parameter called recovery_target_barrier has been added in recovery.conf. In order to perform a complete PITR recovery, it is necessary to set recovery_target_barrier to the value of a barrier already created. Then distribute recovery.conf to each data folder of each node, and then to restart the nodes one by one. The default barrier name is dummy_barrier_id. It is used when no barrier name is specified when using CREATE BARRIER.