Re: How to check streaming replication status

> From: Condor <condor(at)stz-bg(dot)com>
> To: "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
> Sent: Thursday, 31 August 2017, 08:36:19 GMT+1
>
> after a hour I get error message on slave server:
>
> LOG:  restored log file "000000010000008B000000DC" from archive
> LOG:  restored log file "000000010000008B000000DD" from archive
> cp: can get attribute '/archive/000000010000008B000000DE': No such file or directory
> LOG:  started streaming WAL from primary at 8B/DD000000 on timeline 1
So it read all the log from the archive then started streaming, if there are no futrher messages you're ok.

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> and after I did it, got:
>
> STATEMENT:  SELECT pg_current_xlog_location()
> ERROR:  recovery is in progress
> HINT:  WAL control functions cannot be executed during recovery.
>
> My question is: How I can check the replication status when the slave
> does not accept connections ?

That's right for a server in recovery you need to call pg_last_xlog_receive_location() or pg_last_xlog_replay_location() to get the current xlog position.