Re: [GENERAL] Recovery continually requests new WAL files

2012-06-13 Thread Alex Good
On 13/06/12 09:10, Albe Laurenz wrote: Alex Good wrote: I have a simple setup with one master and one backup server. I have an issue where I have performed a backup and copied it to the data directory for the slave, written a recovery.conf and copied in the backup_label file and then started

Re: [GENERAL] Recovery continually requests new WAL files

2012-06-13 Thread Alex Good
On 13/06/12 11:10, Albe Laurenz wrote: Alex Good wrote: Although pgpool is involved this isn't actually about pgpool, I've been running through the recovery process manually to try and understand what needs to be done in order to get onlinve recovery working with pgpool. Pg

Re: [GENERAL] Recovery continually requests new WAL files

2012-06-13 Thread Alex Good
On 13/06/12 10:29, Albe Laurenz wrote: Alex Good wrote: What I expected to see was the server requesting each WAL file up until the one which was archived during pg_stop_backup and then the server would consider itself to be recovered. Clearly I have misunderstood something here. These two

[GENERAL] Recovery continually requests new WAL files

2012-06-12 Thread Alex Good
Hey! I have a simple setup with one master and one backup server. I have an issue where I have performed a backup and copied it to the data directory for the slave, written a recovery.conf and copied in the backup_label file and then started the server, it happily restores everything up until