On Thursday 28 October 2010 5:07:06 am dan.m.harris wrote:
> Hi Thom, thanks for your reply. Here's my psql output:
>
> bash-3.00$ bin/psql
> psql (9.0.1, server 8.1.4)
> WARNING: psql version 9.0, server version 8.1.
> Some psql features might not work.
> Type "help" for help.
>
> postgre
I was just being a bit dull, I'm afraid - I've had a read of the psql help,
and by default it connects to port 5432, which is the port that's listening
for the PG 8.1.4 install on my server. I ran 'bin/psql -p ' instead, to
point at my PG 9.0 instance, and the pg_start_backup worked fine.
Tha
On Thursday 28 October 2010 5:07:06 am dan.m.harris wrote:
> Hi Thom, thanks for your reply. Here's my psql output:
>
> bash-3.00$ bin/psql
> psql (9.0.1, server 8.1.4)
> WARNING: psql version 9.0, server version 8.1.
> Some psql features might not work.
> Type "help" for help.
>
> postgre
On 28 October 2010 13:07, dan.m.harris wrote:
>
> Hi Thom, thanks for your reply. Here's my psql output:
>
> bash-3.00$ bin/psql
> psql (9.0.1, server 8.1.4)
> WARNING: psql version 9.0, server version 8.1.
> Some psql features might not work.
> Type "help" for help.
>
> postgres=# SHOW wa
Hi Thom, thanks for your reply. Here's my psql output:
bash-3.00$ bin/psql
psql (9.0.1, server 8.1.4)
WARNING: psql version 9.0, server version 8.1.
Some psql features might not work.
Type "help" for help.
postgres=# SHOW wal_level;
ERROR: unrecognized configuration parameter "wal_leve
On 28 October 2010 12:42, dan.m.harris wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm trying to take a base backup of my primary DB ready for copying to my
> standby. I've followed the instructions to configure my postgresql.conf at
> hxxp://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/continuous-archiving.html, but I
> g
