Jeff Janes <jeff.ja...@gmail.com> writes: > ... sometimes the automatic recovery never initiates. It looks > like the postmaster is waiting for the archiver to exit before it > starts recovery, and the archiver is waiting for something, I don't > really know what.
Can you try poking into the archiver's state with gdb? It would be useful to see a stack trace when it's hung, as well as the local and static variables of pgarch.c. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers