Re: [GENERAL] WAL Log Shipping - Warm Standby not working under 8.3.7

2010-01-12 Thread Erik Jones
On Jan 9, 2010, at 7:24 AM, Keaton Adams wrote: > Restored from last evening's backup from the master DB to make the rsync > across the network finish sooner. > >> > >> Shut down the PG instance on the slave machine > >> > >> Ran a script that does the following: > >> > >> select pg_start_backup

Re: [GENERAL] WAL Log Shipping - Warm Standby not working under 8.3.7

2010-01-09 Thread Keaton Adams
We are still on PG 8.3.7 and I don't see pg_standby. It looks like it was added with 8.3.8. I will put in a request to update to 8.3.9 as a part of our next software upgrade (internal product we write) but for now I need to try to figure out why this isn't working under 8.3.7. I did manage t

Re: [GENERAL] WAL Log Shipping - Warm Standby not working under 8.3.7

2010-01-08 Thread Erik Jones
On Jan 8, 2010, at 4:50 PM, Erik Jones wrote: > > On Jan 8, 2010, at 9:50 AM, Keaton Adams wrote: > >> OK, >> >> So what am I doing wrong here? >> >> Installed PG 8.3.7 on Slave machine >> >> Restored from last evening's backup from the master DB to make the rsync >> across the network fini

Re: [GENERAL] WAL Log Shipping - Warm Standby not working under 8.3.7

2010-01-08 Thread Keaton Adams
To clean up from a prior run. Erik Jones wrote: On Jan 8, 2010, at 9:50 AM, Keaton Adams wrote: > OK, > > So what am I doing wrong here? > > Installed PG 8.3.7 on Slave machine > > Restored from last evening's backup from the master DB to make the rsync > across the network finish sooner. > >

Re: [GENERAL] WAL Log Shipping - Warm Standby not working under 8.3.7

2010-01-08 Thread Erik Jones
On Jan 8, 2010, at 9:50 AM, Keaton Adams wrote: > OK, > > So what am I doing wrong here? > > Installed PG 8.3.7 on Slave machine > > Restored from last evening's backup from the master DB to make the rsync > across the network finish sooner. > > Shut down the PG instance on the slave machine

Re: [GENERAL] WAL Log Shipping - Warm Standby not working under 8.3.7

2010-01-08 Thread Keaton Adams
OK, So what am I doing wrong here? Installed PG 8.3.7 on Slave machine Restored from last evening's backup from the master DB to make the rsync across the network finish sooner. Shut down the PG instance on the slave machine Ran a script that does the following: select pg_start_backup('Maste

Re: [GENERAL] WAL Log Shipping - Warm Standby not working under 8.3.7

2010-01-08 Thread Keaton Adams
I did find some references to a fix of last-completed transaction time and I looked in the postgresql-bugs archive, but I'm not having any luck confirming that this is a problem in 8.3.7 and an upgrade to 8.3.9 would fix the issue. postgresql 8.3.7 Fix incorrect logging of last-completed-tr

[GENERAL] WAL Log Shipping - Warm Standby not working under 8.3.7

2010-01-07 Thread Keaton Adams
We had WAL Log shipping (warm standby) working fine under 8.1.4 but under 8.3.7 we can't get the slave to come up properly. Nothing has changed in our process with regard to start_backup, rsync, stop_backup, bring up the warm standby server in continuous recovery mode, but the failover DB won't