Steps to perform recovery after restore operation

The procedure to perform post-recovery is as follows for various platforms:

For Windows (VSS):

Go to Control Panel > System and Security > Administrative Tools > Services.
Select PostgreSQL service and stop it.
Delete or move everything from the PostgreSQL data directory.
Note:
Post restores, change the attributes of the restored data directory and files by using the following command:
attrib -S restore_path/*.* /S /D
Copy all the contents of the restored data directory to PostgreSQL data directory.
Edit the postgresql.conf file from the PostgreSQL data directory and edit the restore_command parameter as restore_command = 'copy "restored_WAL_directory\\%f" "%p"'.
See Performing database name backups. to set the parameters in the postgresql.conf file
For precise point-in-time recovery, specify the timestamp up to which recovery is performed. Update the recovery_target_time parameter as recovery_target_time = 'yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss'
Create an empty file in the data directory and name it recovery.signal.
Start PostgreSQL service.

For Linux (LVM):

Stop PostgreSQL services.
Delete or move everything from the PostgreSQL data directory.
Extract and copy the data directory and WAL directory contents to respective location.
Create an empty file with name recovery.signal in data directory.
Edit the postgresql.conf file from the PostgreSQL data directory and edit the restore_command parameter as restore_command = 'copy "restored_WAL_directory\\%f" "%p"'.
For precise point-in-time recovery, specify the timestamp up to which recovery is performed. Update the recovery_target_time parameter as recovery_target_time = 'yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss'
Change ownership of PostgreSQL data directory and permission to 700.
For example:
chown -R postgres:postgres /full/path/of/PostgreSQL/Data/Dir
chmod - R 700 /full/path/of/PostgreSQL/Data/Dir
Start PostgreSQL service.

Recovery steps for backup done by pg_basebackup utility

Stop PostgreSQL services.
Delete or move everything from the PostgreSQL data directory.
Extract and copy the data directory and WAL directory contents to respective location.
Create an empty file with name recovery.signal in data directory.
Edit the postgresql.conf file from the PostgreSQL data directory and edit the restore_command parameter as restore_command = 'copy "restored_WAL_directory\\%f" "%p"'.
For precise point-in-time recovery, specify the timestamp up to which recovery is performed. Update the recovery_target_time parameter as recovery_target_time = 'yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss'
(For Windows) Provide access to data directory for network service.

(For Linux) Change ownership of PostgreSQL data directory and permission to 700.

For example:

chown -R postgres:postgres /full/path/of/PostgreSQL/Data/Dir
chmod  - R 700 /full/path/of/PostgreSQL/Data/Dir

Start PostgreSQL service.
Note:
Remove the restore data from the restored path /full/path/of/restore/directory after successful recovery, else the next backup job may fail.

Recovery steps for backup using pgbackrest utility

Change the ownership of PostgreSQL data directory and set the permission to 700.

For example:

chown -R postgres:postgres /full/path/of/PostgreSQL/Data/Dir
chmod -R 700 /full/path/of/PostgreSQL/Data/Dir

Database recovery steps for backup done by pg_dumpall utility

For Windows: psql.exe -h localhost -p port_num -U username -f full\path\to\dumpall\file\filename.out
For Linux: psql -h localhost -p port_num -U username -f full/path/to/dumpall/file/filename.out

Database recovery steps for backup done by pgdump utility

For Windows: pg_restore -U username -d dbname full\path\to\dump\file\filename.dump
For Linux: pg_restore -U username -d dbname full/path/of/dump/file/filename.dump