Re: [GENERAL] problem with pg_standby

2010-08-03 Thread Gerd Koenig
thanks Greg, yes, we want SELinux in enforcing mode. Thereby (and to ensure persistence) just chcon is the wrong way and * semanage fcontext -a -t postgresql_t '' * restorecon -vvFR is much better ;-) regards--GERD-- On Wednesday, August 04, 2010 07:56:56 am Greg Smith wrote: > Gerd Koenig wrote

Re: [GENERAL] problem with pg_standby

2010-08-03 Thread Greg Smith
Gerd Koenig wrote: thanks for the hint, yes, SELinux caused the troubles. It complained about wrong filecontext while starting postgres via init-script. Filecontext was: var_lib_t and it should be: postgresql_t If you want to keep SELinux on, basically you have to relabel the directory you

Re: [GENERAL] problem with pg_standby

2010-08-03 Thread Gerd Koenig
Hello Greg, thanks for the hint, yes, SELinux caused the troubles. It complained about wrong filecontext while starting postgres via init-script. Filecontext was: var_lib_t and it should be: postgresql_t regards...GERD On Tuesday, August 03, 2010 11:54:45 pm Greg Smith wrote: > Gerd Koenig

Re: [GENERAL] problem with pg_standby

2010-08-03 Thread Greg Smith
Gerd Koenig wrote: Since even the init-script starts pg as user postgres I have no idea what differs from init-script to direct call of pg_ctl as user postgres...?!?! Do you have SELinux turned on? That can do weird stuff like this--the init script will be running with restrictions the man

Re: [GENERAL] problem with pg_standby

2010-08-03 Thread Gerd Koenig
Hi again, I just want to drop you an additional note. After several attempts of debugging pg_standby is restoring the WAL files as expected, but I cannot explain why... First startup of postgres was with init-script provided by the rpm installation (/etc/init.d/postgresql start as user root).

Re: [GENERAL] problem with pg_standby

2010-08-03 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 22:37 +0200, Gerd Koenig wrote: > Hello, > > we currently setup a standby database with archive_command sending the WALs > from master to standby. > This works as expected, but the standby database doesn't restore the WALs > from > the given directory in recovery.conf and

[GENERAL] problem with pg_standby

2010-08-03 Thread Gerd Koenig
Hello, we currently setup a standby database with archive_command sending the WALs from master to standby. This works as expected, but the standby database doesn't restore the WALs from the given directory in recovery.conf and I have no idea why... recovery.conf: restore_comman