Message-ID: <1426091712.6353.4.camel@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Relocated Postgres
From: jaime soler <jaime.soler@gmail.com>
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To: "Rossi, Maria" <maria.rossi@us.pgds.com>
Cc: "'pgsql-admin@postgresql.org'" <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 17:35:12 +0100
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El mié, 11-03-2015 a las 01:02 +0000, Rossi, Maria escribió:
> HI,
> 

Hi,
>  
> 
> I relocated an postgres instance.  The pg_data, pg_tranlog,
> pg_hba.conf, etc were copied to new directories.

did you stop the instance, before start the copy ?
>   Then, I updated the postgresql.conf accordingly.  Postgres started
> ok, and I can connect.   However when I stopped it,  the following msg
> appeared at the errorlog:
> 
>  
> 
> cp: overwrite
> `/dba/psg/gs07/pg_tranlog/pg_archlog/00000001000000000000004C'? <
> 2015-03-10 20:50:38 EDT >LOG:  database system is shut down
> 
Could you share with us archive_command and archive_mode of
postgresql.conf ?
It seems than you are using "cp -i" in your archive_command, doesn't
it ?  

>  
> 
> Postgres proceeded to shutdown.   
> 
>  
> 
> ‘ls’ showed that the file still have the old timestamp, which is the
> timestamp when I copied it over:
> 
>  
> 
> ls -ltr /dba/psg/gs07/pg_tranlog/pg_archlog/00000001000000000000004B
> 
> -rw------- 1 gs07 dbagroup 16777216 Mar 10
> 12:07 /dba/psg/gs07/pg_tranlog/pg_archlog/0000000100
> 
>  
> 
> I did not have any transctions, though between the start-up and
> shutdown.  I would have expected the timestamp of the logfile to have
> been changed. 
> 
> Looks like it was waiting for a response to ‘cp’.
> 
>  
> 
> I am concerned that if there were any transactions, I would have lost
> it.  
> 
> Pls advice.
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks.
> 
>  
> 
> Maria
> 
>  
> 
> 


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