Re: [HACKERS] Recreating archive_status

2008-03-17 Thread Bruce Momjian
Added to TODO: o Recreate pg_xlog/archive_status/ if it doesn't exist after restoring from a PITR backup http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-12/msg00487.php --- Simon Riggs

[HACKERS] Recreating archive_status

2007-12-12 Thread Simon Riggs
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

Re: [HACKERS] Recreating archive_status

2007-12-12 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:28:58 + Simon Riggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [HACKERS] Recreating archive_status

2007-12-12 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Simon Riggs wrote: 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. Oh please yes -- Peter Eisentraut