Re: FATAL: the database system is starting up

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 1:37 AM, Joe Carr <joe(dot)carr(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Hello all,
> OS = Windows Server 2003
> PostGres = 9.0
>
> I'm trying to bring up a second machine as a hot standby. When I attempted
> to start the service on the second machine I receive the following :
>
> 2010-09-22 09:33:56 PDT LOG:  database system was interrupted; last known up
> at 2010-09-22 09:07:51 PDT
> 2010-09-22 09:33:56 PDT LOG:  creating missing WAL directory
> "pg_xlog/archive_status"
> 2010-09-22 09:33:56 PDT LOG:  entering standby mode
> 2010-09-22 09:33:57 PDT FATAL:  the database system is starting up
> 2010-09-22 09:33:57 PDT LOG:  restored log file "00000001000000000000002E"
> from archive
> 2010-09-22 09:33:57 PDT LOG:  redo starts at 0/2E000020
> 2010-09-22 09:33:57 PDT LOG:  consistent recovery state reached at
> 0/2F000000
> 2010-09-22 09:33:57 PDT LOG:  streaming replication successfully connected
> to primary
> 2010-09-22 09:33:58 PDT FATAL:  the database system is starting up
> 2010-09-22 09:33:59 PDT FATAL:  the database system is starting up
>
> and the "FATAL:  the database system is starting up" message will continue.
>
> Do you know any steps to debug this message? I have a feeling it is a file
> permissions error, but I cannot determine the cause.

Did you set hot_standby to true in postgresql.conf of the standby server?

Regards,

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