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From Mark Steben
Subject question on warm standby
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Msg-id 77785C387FC44102BF108D152DC501C2@dei26g028534
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Hi,
My problem probably is that I need to look at the forest but am
hyper-focusing on a maple twig.  I have been looking at this for 2 days now
And would appreciate some feedback...

I am running postgres 8.3.4 on master(mymachine) and slave(hummer).  I am
attempting to implement warm standby.
  1.  On mymachine I have the following archive_command:
      Scp %p postgres@hummer:/var/backups/archlog/%f
          (scp has been set up with ssh keys so that password
               Is not required for postgres user)
    This works fine.  Copies wal logs to the /var/backups/archlog directory.

  2. Before I attempt pg_standby or some other wait script on hummer I have
      Used a simple cp command in my recovery.conf file to manually restore
       My first set of updates:

     restore_command = 'cp /var/backups/archlog/%f  %p'

       From the doc I am assuming that %f should be the file name(s) of the
        Wal log in /var/backups/archlog/ to be copied into the
         /*/*/*/*/pg_xlog directory referenced by %p
        But %f seems to be referencing current wal log names in
         /*/*/*/*/pg_xlog.  I am getting messages like:

cp: cannot stat `/var/backups/archlog/0000000600000003000000D2':
      No such file or directory

      0000000600000003000000D2 is an actual wal log in hummer's
       /*/*/*/*/pg_xlog directory.

  How do I get the %f macro to reference the file names in the
    /var/backups/archlog directory?

Once I get past this, then I can play around with pg_standby and get
Real warm_standby started.

Thanks for your help,


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