Re: [HACKERS] Spontaneous PITR standby activiation

2011-02-16 Thread Thom Brown
On 26 November 2009 07:26, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > David Christensen wrote: >> 1) is there a hard limit of the number of times the archive_command will >> attempt?  I didn't see anything documented about this in the PITR or >> config docs, so I'm guessing the 10 failures I saw in the log were

Re: [HACKERS] Spontaneous PITR standby activiation

2009-11-25 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
David Christensen wrote: > 1) is there a hard limit of the number of times the archive_command will > attempt? I didn't see anything documented about this in the PITR or > config docs, so I'm guessing the 10 failures I saw in the log were just > coincidental. There's no limit. It will try forever

[HACKERS] Spontaneous PITR standby activiation

2009-11-25 Thread David Christensen
Last night we had the standby server in a PITR setup seemingly spontaneously believe it had recovered completely and startup a new timeline; I'm running this information by you guys to see if what had happened is considered a bug, or if there is a simple explanation. So some questions here: