What Is Restore Point?
A restore point is a named marker in PostgreSQL WAL history used to simplify recovery targets when performing point-in-time recovery.
Why It Matters for PostgreSQL Performance
In PostgreSQL performance work, restore points improve operational control before risky schema, data, or benchmark experiments.
Practical Benchmarking Context
When benchmarking with pgbench, create a restore point before destructive workload tests so you can quickly roll back environment state.
Use this term together with workload shape, concurrency level, and scale factor when interpreting pgbench outputs. Isolated values can be misleading without full run context.
Example
Command: SELECT pg_create_restore_point('before_large_migration');