Re: problem with WAL files - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: problem with WAL files
Date
Msg-id 21708.1120165944@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to problem with WAL files  (Romain Thouvenin <rthouvenin@sfwan.com>)
Responses Re: problem with WAL files  (Jeff Frost <jeff@frostconsultingllc.com>)
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Romain Thouvenin <rthouvenin@sfwan.com> writes:
> I'm currently testing PITR features of 8.0 release. I followed the steps
> given by the documentation and thus deleted the WAL files in pg_xlog
> after having restored the database.

But you have the WAL files in your archive area, right?

> 2005-06-30 17:57:50 LOG:  restore_command = "copy E:\\temp\\archive\\%f
> "%p""
> 2005-06-30 17:57:50 LOG:  recovery_target_time = 2005-07-01 00:45:00+02
> 2005-06-30 17:57:50 LOG:  could not open file "C:/Program
> Files/PostgreSQL/8.0/data/pg_xlog/00000001000000000000000B" (log file 0,
> segment 11): No such file or directory

Apparently it wasn't able to get the 00000001000000000000000B segment
from the archive either.  The displayed restore_command looks a bit
bogus to me: too many \'s.  Maybe you need to correct that?

            regards, tom lane

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