Joshua D. Drake wrote:
On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 15:21 -0400, Geoffrey wrote:

My problem is, I never see a *.history file, thus my script sits in a loop looking for it. I see the WAL files showing up on the archive server, but I don't see a *.history file.

What am I missing?

pg_standby it self isn't a solution for warm standby. It is a component
thereof. Also don't use SCP. Use rsync. Take a look at walmgr or
PITRTools it will make your life easier.

I still don't understand why the pg_standby code is looking for the *.history. Apparently others have seen this same behavior (according to google), yet I don't see any definitive answer.

I don't mind looking at other tools, but I want to understand this process. I can't find what files are processed in what order, although according to the pg_standby.c code, there are at least three different files it's looking for: *.history, *.backup, and the standard WAL files.

Is this documented anywhere?

It appears the PITRTools use pg_standby binary, thus I'm still confused as to how these files are processed.

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Until later, Geoffrey

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temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
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