Marc Schablewski <ms(at)clickware(dot)de> writes:
> ... When looking for a reason why the WAL weren't shipped, we found
> the following error message:
> 2008-10-31 17:07:52 CET 9162LOG: received smart shutdown request
> 2008-10-31 17:07:52 CET 9178FATAL: could not restore file
> "000000010000008600000018" from archive: return code 15
Something sent SIGTERM to both your postmaster (hence the "smart
shutdown" message) and the recovery_command script (causing it to
exit with code 15, which is probably SIGTERM though you might want
to check kill -l to be sure). You need to find out what's doing that
and make it stop.
regards, tom lane