Marc Schablewski wrote: > Hi, > > we are running a PostgreSQL 8.3.3 on a Linux box (SuSE 10.3, 2.6.22 > kernel) as a hot standby. After some maintenances work the WAL files > couldn't be shipped to that system (which had nothing to do with > postgres, as we found out later). The problem was not noticed for about > a week. When looking for a reason why the WAL weren't shipped, we found > the following error message: > > 2008-10-31 17:07:52 CET 9162LOG: received smart shutdown request > 2008-10-31 17:07:52 CET 9178FATAL: could not restore file > "000000010000008600000018" from archive: return code 15
This server was stopped intentionally by someone or something, external to Postgres itself. "Smart shutdown" means the postmaster got SIGTERM. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
