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

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