Re: Archive WAL Logs Failed

On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 10:15 -0800, Subbiah, Stalin wrote:

> Yesterday, we'd archiver problems in copying archived wal files from
> pg_xlog to archive destination at the end of full hotbackup. Below are
> the errors from server logs.
>
> What makes me to wonder is that why does archiver tries to copy
> "000000010000000800000074.0066C9C0.backup" again when it's already
> been archived. As soon I removed
> "000000010000000800000074.0066C9C0.backup" from archive location, then
> archiver was happy to copy again and moved on to archiving
> 000000010000000800000074 etc.
>
> 2006-11-07 00:35:23 CST LOG: archived transaction log file
> "000000010000000800000074.0066C9C0.backup"
> 2006-11-07 00:35:23 CST LOG: archive command "test !
> -f /b01/pgdata/archive/db1/000000010000000800000074.0066C9C0.backup &&
> cp
> pg_xlog/000000010000000800000074.0066C9C0.backup /b01/pgdata/archive/db1/000000010000000800000074.0066C9C0.backup" failed: return code 256
>
> Any idea what may be going on here.

> PG814, RH4.0

This was a bug fixed in 8.1.5

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2006-06/msg00305.php

I notice it isn't mentioned in the 8.1.5 release notes. You should
upgrade.

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Simon Riggs
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