I was able to find the file, which was from the date of the failure (Tuesday June 9th). My question is why the backup from this morning would all of a sudden require a file from the 9th even though 5 hours of logs were able to be applied? I ended up doing another hotbackup and restoring the database from this afternoon and this seems to be working fine. I am just worried that another WAL file will throw the same error and I will be without a warm standby.

Thanks again,

Keith

Tom Lane wrote:

Keith Pierno <kpierno@lulu.com> writes:

Thanks for the prompt response. If such a file is needed for recovery
it was never created by postgres. The current archiving process creates
uses rsync to archive the WAL files to a shared archive area. In the
past and on my other cluster we do not see .history files on the
primary server and have been able to recover without them.


The .history file would have been created on the slave at the time it
became new master (and started its own timeline).

			regards, tom lane