On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Fujii Masao <masao.fu...@gmail.com> wrote: > You seem to focus on the above trouble. I think that this happened because > recovery.conf was deleted and restore_command was not given. In fact, the > WAL file (e.g., pg_xlog/0000000200003C82000000A3) required for recovery > was unable to be restored from the archive because restore_command was > not supplied. Then recovery failed. > > If the sysadmin had left the recovery.conf and removed the trigger file, > pg_standby in restore_command would have restored all WAL files required > for recovery, and recovery would advance well.
That may be true, but it's certainly seems unfortunate that we don't handle this case a bit more gracefully. ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs