Hi all,
I'm not sure if the following is a bug or not. The symptoms I have is pretty
much like this bug
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=166117
which have been documented in various archives. However, I run postgres 8.1.
What I do is i try to restore from a backup. I have a base backup and some
archived WALs which I restore from.
If I, as a final step in the restoration, start up postgres with
'/etc/init.d/postgresql-8.1 start' it will print [fail] to the shell and exit.
This happens about halfway through the restoration of WAL archives.
However, if I call '/etc/init.d/postgresql-8.1 status' it says that the status
is online; the database is running. If I examine the logs it seems that the
startup has continued running beyond the point where it stopped printing to
shell. All WAL archives are restored. And the content of the database seems to
be ok.
I also tried to use '/usr/lib/postgresql/8.1/bin/pg_ctl start' to start up the
database instead of the /etc/init.d script. This works without any error
messages.
Could I safely assume that the restoration was successful, although
/etc/init.d/postgresql-8.1 says it failed?
Best,
I.N.
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