Re: Minor bug/inconveniance with restore from backup, using PITR base backup and archived wal files

Tommy Gildseth <tommy.gildseth@usit.uio.no> writes:
> ... problem came at the end of the recovery, after the log line:

> [2008-09-23 15:33:14.764 CEST] [pgtest01] [:] [] [18393] [] LOG: archive
> recovery complete

> followed immediately after by this line:

>   [2008-09-24 13:04:52.168 CEST] pgtest01] [:] [] [13324] [] PANIC:
> could not open file "pg_xlog/00000002000000030000009F" (log file 3,
> segment 159): Permission denied

> and, the cluster shutting down.
> After a bit of looking around, and with some help from the fine people
> in #postgresql on freenode, I think I figured out what was going on.
> The last wal archive file was 00000001000000030000009F, and after
> finishing recovery, postgresql created the file 00000002000000030000009F
> (ie. 00000002 instead of 00000001) in pg_xlog.

It's customary for PG to "create" new XLOG segments by recycling old
ones.

> The wal-files were
> archived read-only, and this file permission seemed to be carried over
> to the new file created by postgresql in pg_xlog, causing the cluster to
> fall over and die.

I would say that the bug is in your restore script: it should have made
sure that the files it copies into the xlog directory are given the
right ownership/permissions.

            regards, tom lane