During recovery procedures, there is a step that says "If you didn't archive pg_xlog/ at all, then recreate it, and be sure to recreate the subdirectory pg_xlog/archive_status/ as well."
If you forget to do this, you may not realise until the recovering server comes up and tries writing to the directory. The message that is spat out when this happens is LOG: could not create archive status file "pg_xlog/archive_status/00000001000003CE0000009E.ready": No such file or directory We could check this just as the server comes up and then re-create it if necessary. So we have one less step in the process to remember. Existing scripts which perform this automatically will not need changing. We can keep the message in case something removes the directory later. Views? -- Simon Riggs 2ndQuadrant http://www.2ndQuadrant.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
