Re: HA warm standby issue with trigger file.

On Mar 2, 8:37 pm, masao(dot)fu(dot)(dot)(dot)(at)gmail(dot)com (Fujii Masao) wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 11:17 PM, Jason Clark
>
> <j(dot)clark(dot)127(dot)0(dot)(dot)(dot)(dot)(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > so thats not an issue, also, the backup server is pulling the WAL
> > files and loading them properly, here is my recovery.conf file:
>
> > standby_mode = 'on'
> > restore_command = 'usr/pgsql-9.0/bin/pg_standby -d -w 300 -t /tmp/
> > trigger.5423 /mnt/win/ %f %p 2>>standby.log
> > archive_cleanup_command = '/usr/pgsql-9.0/bin/pg_archivecleanup -d /
> > mnt/win %r 2>>cleanup.log
>
> If pg_standby is used, standby_mode must be set to off. Otherwise,
> as you observed, the trigger file cannot promote the standby.
>
> In 9.0, pg_standby doesn't remove the trigger file automatically,
> so if you want that, you need to set recovery_end_command to
> the command which removes the trigger file.
>
> Regards,
>
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Perfect! took ages to find that bit. Thank you a ton!