Re: postgres standby won't start

On 10/08/2015 08:27 AM, Ramalingam, Sankarakumar wrote:
> Yes it is and Yes I do have the recovery file.

I would suggest you and the other folks involved take a  look here:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/interactive/warm-standby.html

It will go a long way to explaining what you are seeing and a great deal
more. Once you have read through the above, then feel free to post any
questions that were not answered in the docs.

> Here is the scenario. It looks like the logs are not getting shipped over to the standby. After I dragged the WAL
filesfrom Primary to Standby and restarted, I see some successful recovery messages with the file names mentioned.
Rightnow the standby is now functional as READ ONLY. 
> One question would be why logs are not getting shipped to standby even though my log say connection to primary
successful.
>
> Another question, if I have to make it a standalone DB instead of standby, now that I have the required data in
place,what changes I need to do in Primary as well as here. 
>
> Thanks a lot for your continuous response.
>
> P.S. I did use pg_basebackup and moved the tar file to standby and overwrote (after cleaning up data folder) the data
folderand then started the db 
>
>
>
> Thanks
> Kumar Ramalingam
> X6015288
>
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