On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 15:14 -0500, Ray Stell wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 03:06:12PM -0500, Ray Stell wrote:
> > Testing pg_standby in 8.3.6. I've gotten this standby into some sort of
> > bind. It seems like it may be waiting for some WAL. How can I tell
> > what it is waiting on? I don't really know how this works, so I may
>
>
> say something silly. The standby log says:
>
> ,2512,,2009-03-04 12:23:01.483 EST,49aeb8f5.9d0,1,2009-03-04 12:23:01 EST,0, LOG: database system was interrupted;
lastknown up at 2009-03-04 12:20:29 EST
> ,2512,,2009-03-04 12:23:01.483 EST,49aeb8f5.9d0,2,2009-03-04 12:23:01 EST,0, LOG: starting archive recovery
> ,2512,,2009-03-04 12:23:01.484 EST,49aeb8f5.9d0,3,2009-03-04 12:23:01 EST,0, LOG: restore_command =
'/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_standby /data/pgsql/wals/alerts_oamp %f %p %r >>
/home/postgresql/log/alerts_oamp/recovery.log'
You've set archive_timeout?
http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/runtime-config-wal.html#RUNTIME-CONFIG-WAL-ARCHIVING
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