Neon point-in-time recovery works by branching from a past timestamp, not by rewinding

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Neon retains a write-ahead history for the project, and recovery means creating a branch whose starting point is a past timestamp or log sequence number, then either pointing the application at that branch or promoting it. There is no restore-in-place operation that rewinds an existing branch without creating one.

The practical consequence after an accidental DELETE is that the fix is fast and non-destructive: branch from a moment before the incident, copy the missing rows across, then delete the branch. The reachable window is bounded by the project's configured history retention, which differs by plan, so the recovery point must fall inside it. Anything older needs a conventional pg_dump backup, and Neon does not take those automatically, so a scheduled logical dump is still worth running.

Source: https://neon.com/docs/introduction

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