Re: archiving transaction log file failed too many times, will try again later - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Jerry Sievers
Subject Re: archiving transaction log file failed too many times, will try again later
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Msg-id 864n0gv4oy.fsf@jerry.enova.com
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In response to archiving transaction log file failed too many times, will try again later  (basti <mailinglist@unix-solution.de>)
List pgsql-general
basti <mailinglist@unix-solution.de> writes:

> Hello,
> I'm running a barman test system.
> Last night there was a Hardware failure.
> my postgres.conf looks like
>
> root@srv-007:/var/log/postgresql# cat
> /etc/postgresql/9.3/barman_recover/postgresql.conf | egrep -v "(^#|^$|^;)"
> data_directory = '/var/lib/postgresql/9.3/barman_recover' # use data in
> another directory
> listen_addresses = '*'
> port = 5437
> max_connections = 100
> wal_level = archive
> archive_mode = on
> archive_command = false

False?...

You are forcing your archiving to fail and thus be queued for later
shipment.

> log_line_prefix = '%t '
> log_timezone = 'localtime'
> datestyle = 'iso, mdy'
> timezone = 'localtime'
> lc_messages = 'en_US.iso885915' # locale for system error message
> lc_monetary = 'en_US.iso885915' # locale for monetary formatting
> lc_numeric = 'en_US.iso885915' # locale for number formatting
> lc_time = 'en_US.iso885915' # locale for time formatting
> default_text_search_config = 'pg_catalog.english'
> root@srv-007:/var/log/postgresql#
>
> and the logfile .../postgresql-9.3-barman_recover.log is full of
> 2014-05-23 10:58:56 CEST LOG: archive command failed with exit code 1
> 2014-05-23 10:58:56 CEST DETAIL: The failed archive command was: false
> 2014-05-23 10:58:57 CEST LOG: archive command failed with exit code 1
> 2014-05-23 10:58:57 CEST DETAIL: The failed archive command was: false
> 2014-05-23 10:58:58 CEST LOG: archive command failed with exit code 1
> 2014-05-23 10:58:58 CEST DETAIL: The failed archive command was: false
> 2014-05-23 10:58:58 CEST WARNING: archiving transaction log file
> "00000001000000000000000C" failed too many times, will try again later
>
> How can I fix this?
>
> Thanks,
> Basti

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