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From: Charles Duffy <charles.duffy@gmail.com>
To: kevin kempter <kevin@kevinkempterllc.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: warm standby issues
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:58:28 +1000
Message-ID: <dfdaea8f0804271658s5366836qb0248d5c63d45562@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <932B6BCD-0917-49BD-96B7-91395A4EC397@kevinkempterllc.com>
References: <932B6BCD-0917-49BD-96B7-91395A4EC397@kevinkempterllc.com>

Hi Kevin,

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 7:34 AM, kevin kempter
<kevin@kevinkempterllc.com> wrote:
> Hi List;
>
>  I'm setting up a warm standby server on version 8.1.9
>

I didn't think 8.1 supported warm-standby...

>  I setup a recovery.sh script to keep the standby cluster in recovery mode
> waiting for the next  WAL segment. everything works fine as long as the
> standby server is in recovery mode.  I see the recovery taking place in the
> postgres log of the standby server. I've set it up to exit the recovery.sh
> script if it see's a trigger file (to bring the standby online).
>
>  when I create the trigger file I see this:
>
>  copy /home/postgres/healthCareCoding/WAL/000000010000000000000004
> pg_xlog/RECOVERYXLOG

Try with 8.2 or above, and see if that makes your problem go away. Use
pg_standby instead of shell scripts.

Thanks,

Charles Duffy



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