Re: does wal archiving block the current client connection?

On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 22:45 -0700, Jeff Frost wrote:
> On Thu, 18 May 2006, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > Jeff Frost <jeff(at)frostconsultingllc(dot)com> writes:
> >> I seem to get alot of these:
> >
> >> May 17 21:34:04 discord postgres[20573]: [5-1] WARNING: could not rename file
> >> "pg_xlog/archive_status/000000010000000000000001.ready" to
> >> May 17 21:34:04 discord postgres[20573]: [5-2]
> >> "pg_xlog/archive_status/000000010000000000000001.done": No such file or
> >> directory
> >
> > That seems odd ...
>
> Further interesting items:
>
> May 17 22:41:18 discord postgres[23817]: [3-1] LOG: archive command
> "/usr/local/pgsql-8.1.3/bin/archive_test.sh "pg_xlog/00000001000000000000000E"
> "00000001000000000000000E""
> May 17 22:41:18 discord postgres[23817]: [3-2] failed: return code 256
> And in the window where I started postgres via pg_ctl, I had this:
>
> cat: pg_xlog/00000001000000000000000E: No such file or directory
> cat: pg_xlog/00000001000000000000000E: No such file or directory
>
> Seems bad.

Seems so.

Can you post the full test, plus full execution log.

[You don't need to "cat" you could just do "ls" instead FWIW]

Are you doing *anything* with pg_xlog directory or below? I understand
your saying No to that question and pg_xlog has not been moved, its just
underneath data directory, which is on normal disk?

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