Re: Relocated Postgres

El mié, 11-03-2015 a las 01:02 +0000, Rossi, Maria escribió:
> HI,
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Hi,
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> I relocated an postgres instance. The pg_data, pg_tranlog,
> pg_hba.conf, etc were copied to new directories.

did you stop the instance, before start the copy ?
> Then, I updated the postgresql.conf accordingly. Postgres started
> ok, and I can connect. However when I stopped it, the following msg
> appeared at the errorlog:
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> cp: overwrite
> `/dba/psg/gs07/pg_tranlog/pg_archlog/00000001000000000000004C'? <
> 2015-03-10 20:50:38 EDT >LOG: database system is shut down
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Could you share with us archive_command and archive_mode of
postgresql.conf ?
It seems than you are using "cp -i" in your archive_command, doesn't
it ?

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> Postgres proceeded to shutdown.
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> ‘ls’ showed that the file still have the old timestamp, which is the
> timestamp when I copied it over:
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> ls -ltr /dba/psg/gs07/pg_tranlog/pg_archlog/00000001000000000000004B
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> -rw------- 1 gs07 dbagroup 16777216 Mar 10
> 12:07 /dba/psg/gs07/pg_tranlog/pg_archlog/0000000100
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> I did not have any transctions, though between the start-up and
> shutdown. I would have expected the timestamp of the logfile to have
> been changed.
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> Looks like it was waiting for a response to ‘cp’.
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> I am concerned that if there were any transactions, I would have lost
> it.
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> Pls advice.
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> Thanks.
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> Maria
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