Re: WAL Recovery

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Ashish Karalkar <ashish_postgre(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)in>
Cc: g <pgsql-novice-subscribe(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgadmin <pgadmin-support(at)gborg(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, pggeneral <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>, ashish(dot)karalkar(at)netcore(dot)co(dot)in
Subject: Re: WAL Recovery
Date: 2007-11-28 09:11:21
Message-ID: 1196241081.4246.1191.camel@ebony.site
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On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 06:05 +0000, Ashish Karalkar wrote:

> I have PostgreSQL 8.2.4 on Suse Linux
>
> Whne I am doing recovery from WAL archives I see in the logger that
> "000001.history file not found" infact server has not created such
> file insted it created 000001.backup file which contains the history
> which documents also suggest is history file.
> Should I ignore this message in logger?

Yes. I will add a note to the docs to mention this.

> Secondly, the logger says for e.g file 57 not fond in archive area
> which is present in pg_xlog and was not archived when server went down
>
> file upto 56 are there in archive.
>
> can anybody please explain why server giving message for filer 57 not
> found in archive area.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/continuous-archiving.html#BACKUP-PITR-RECOVERY

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Simon Riggs
2ndQuadrant http://www.2ndQuadrant.com

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