Re: Archive WAL Logs Failed

Added to 8.1.5 release notes:

<listitem><para>Fix rare bug in continuous archiving
(Tom)</para></listitem>

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Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 10:15 -0800, Subbiah, Stalin wrote:
>
> > Yesterday, we'd archiver problems in copying archived wal files from
> > pg_xlog to archive destination at the end of full hotbackup. Below are
> > the errors from server logs.
> >
> > What makes me to wonder is that why does archiver tries to copy
> > "000000010000000800000074.0066C9C0.backup" again when it's already
> > been archived. As soon I removed
> > "000000010000000800000074.0066C9C0.backup" from archive location, then
> > archiver was happy to copy again and moved on to archiving
> > 000000010000000800000074 etc.
> >
> > 2006-11-07 00:35:23 CST LOG: archived transaction log file
> > "000000010000000800000074.0066C9C0.backup"
> > 2006-11-07 00:35:23 CST LOG: archive command "test !
> > -f /b01/pgdata/archive/db1/000000010000000800000074.0066C9C0.backup &&
> > cp
> > pg_xlog/000000010000000800000074.0066C9C0.backup /b01/pgdata/archive/db1/000000010000000800000074.0066C9C0.backup" failed: return code 256
> >
> > Any idea what may be going on here.
>
> > PG814, RH4.0
>
> This was a bug fixed in 8.1.5
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2006-06/msg00305.php
>
> I notice it isn't mentioned in the 8.1.5 release notes. You should
> upgrade.
>
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