WAL archiving to two locations in warm standby

Hello,

I have a Warm Standby set up on two machines (running AIX and Korn shell) in a Postgres 8.4.7 environment. The "archive_command" is set to copy a completed WAL archive to two locations, one on the primary and the other on the Standby machine. Thus:
archive_command = '/bin/cp %p /pgarclog/l01/%f; rcp /pgdata01/pg_xlog/%f mach2:/pgarclog/l01/%f '

As each WAL completes, it is copied over to the primary location and also remote-copied over to the standby machine("mach2" above). This works quite fine. The problem is that if the standby machine is down for some reason or the network is down, the archive command keeps re-trying the command. If the standby machine is unreachable for a long period, this is undesirable. What I would like to tell the postgres engine on the primary is to be "satisfied" if the archiving to the primary location succeeded and to NOT re-try if the failure was in the remote copy.

Is there a way to achive this through the "archive_command" or otherwise?

Thanks.

Alanoly Andrews (alanolya(at)invera(dot)com)

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