Hello,

I have a Warm Standby set up on two machines (running AIX and Korn shell) in a 
Postgres 8.4.7 environment. The "archive_command" is set to copy a completed 
WAL archive to two locations, one on the primary and the other on the Standby 
machine. Thus:
  archive_command = '/bin/cp %p /pgarclog/l01/%f; rcp /pgdata01/pg_xlog/%f 
mach2:/pgarclog/l01/%f '

As each WAL completes, it is copied over to the primary location and also 
remote-copied over to the standby machine("mach2" above). This works quite 
fine. The problem is that if the standby machine is down for some reason or the 
network is down, the archive command keeps re-trying the command. If the 
standby machine is unreachable for a long period, this is undesirable. What I 
would like to tell the postgres engine on the primary is to be "satisfied" if 
the archiving to the primary location succeeded and to NOT re-try if the 
failure was in the remote copy.

Is there a way to achive this through the "archive_command" or otherwise?

Thanks.

Alanoly Andrews (alano...@invera.com)

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