Re: WAL Log Shipping - Warm Standby not working under 8.3.7

On Jan 8, 2010, at 4:50 PM, Erik Jones wrote:

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> On Jan 8, 2010, at 9:50 AM, Keaton Adams wrote:
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>> OK,
>>
>> So what am I doing wrong here?
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>> Installed PG 8.3.7 on Slave machine
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>> Restored from last evening's backup from the master DB to make the rsync across the network finish sooner.
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>> Shut down the PG instance on the slave machine
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>> Ran a script that does the following:
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>> select pg_start_backup('Master_Backup');
>> rsync -rvlpogtz ${masterdb}/* ${slave_dbuser}@${slave_host}:${slavedb}
>> select pg_stop_backup();
>> ssh ${slave_dbuser}@${slave_host} rm ${slavedb}/postmaster.pid 2>/dev/null
>> ssh ${slave_dbuser}@${slave_host} rm ${slave_backup_path}/0* 2>/dev/null
>> ssh ${slave_dbuser}@${slave_host} ${PSQL_BIN}/pg_ctl -D ${slavedb} -l logfile start
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> Is ${slave_backup_path} your archive directory?  Why are you deleting all of you archives there?

Also, what are the contents of your recovery.conf file?  Are you using pg_standby?  The typical setup is to clear
<datadir>/pg_xlogon your standby and use pg_standby to recovery files directly from your archive directory? 

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