Re: problem with WAL files

Jeff Frost wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > Jeff Frost <jeff(at)frostconsultingllc(dot)com> writes:
> >> I'll have to retest that particular scenario and verify that something
> >> else was not causing the problem when I have a chance now that I have
> >> a fully functional and scripted out base backup and recover solution;
> >> however, it did not give me any of the errors I see when my
> >> walrestore.sh script cannot access an archived wal, so I would believe
> >> it did not even try to get it out of the archive.
> >
>
> Tom,
>
> Finally got a chance to give this another full test and discovered that the
> WAL files work fine in the archive dir, but I uncovered a different problem.
> What had happened was that when I rsynced the walarchive and walrestore
> scripts over to the server, rsync made them mode 644 as they were in my cvs
> sandbox and thus not executable. When postgres went to call the script, I
> guess it stat'd the walrestore, saw that it was not executable and quietly
> reported that it could not find the WAL file in the pg_xlog dir. Would
> probably be handy to throw a warning that the restore command was not
> executable, no? Sorry for the false alarm before.

We basically run the command you give us via system(), so it is hard for
us to know exactly why it failed.

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