Re: [ADMIN] Warm standby recovery failure

2009-02-03 Thread Lee Azzarello
thank you all for your help. It was indeed my copy script that destroyed the database. I now understand that postgresql shouldn't be concerned with validating a WAL segment, that's the responsibility of the script that hands the segment to postgres. -lee On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Tom Lane

Re: [ADMIN] Warm standby recovery failure

2009-02-03 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 7:52 AM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: Jaume Sabater jsaba...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 2:22 AM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: We probably should add a caution about this to the manual's discussion of how to write archiving scripts. I presume

Re: [ADMIN] Warm standby recovery failure

2009-01-30 Thread Jaume Sabater
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 2:22 AM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: We probably should add a caution about this to the manual's discussion of how to write archiving scripts. I presume you mean the copy/transfer process did not do its job correctly, Tom. Therefore, I would advise using a script

[ADMIN] Warm standby recovery failure

2009-01-29 Thread Lee Azzarello
I'm new to the list. So hello everyone. This morning my monitoring system sent me an alert that my warm standby database had exited recovery mode. I checked on it when I woke up and sure enough, it had stopped looking for new WAL files and became available for queries. After some digging, I

Re: [ADMIN] Warm standby recovery failure

2009-01-29 Thread Tom Lane
Lee Azzarello l...@dropio.com writes: cp: writing `pg_xlog/./0001002F00AA': No space left on device 2009-01-29 12:48:14 UTC LOG: could not read from log file 47, segment 170, offset 3129344: Success 2009-01-29 12:48:14 UTC LOG: redo done at 2F/AA2FBE08 The bottom line here seems