Re: Warm Standby - log shipping - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Simon Riggs
Subject Re: Warm Standby - log shipping
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Msg-id 1229706686.4793.554.camel@ebony.2ndQuadrant
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In response to Warm Standby - log shipping  ("Mark Steben" <msteben@autorevenue.com>)
List pgsql-admin
On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 16:43 -0500, Mark Steben wrote:
> 3. I am currently in a state where a log got partially copied and
> postgres
> cannot find a valid checkpoint to restart.  What is the best way to
> remedy
> this situation?  Pg_resetxlog perhaps?

Now, pg_resetxlogs, but in future don't delete WAL files that may be
needed for recovery.

You can use

pg_controldata test | grep REDO | cut -d: -f 2

to find out the LSN of the last restartpoint, which can then be
converted into an xlogfilename using pg_xlogfile_name().

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 Simon Riggs           www.2ndQuadrant.com
 PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support


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