Re: WAL Recovery

On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 06:05 +0000, Ashish Karalkar wrote:

> I have PostgreSQL 8.2.4 on Suse Linux
>
> Whne I am doing recovery from WAL archives I see in the logger that
> "000001.history file not found" infact server has not created such
> file insted it created 000001.backup  file which contains the history
> which documents also suggest is history file.
> Should I ignore this message in logger?

Yes. I will add a note to the docs to mention this.

> Secondly, the logger says for e.g file 57 not fond in archive area
> which is present in pg_xlog and was not archived when server went down
>
> file upto 56 are there in archive.
>
> can anybody please explain why server giving message for filer 57 not
> found in archive area.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/continuous-archiving.html#BACKUP-PITR-RECOVERY

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