Re: WAL file naming after postmaster restart

From: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>
To: Sriram Dandapani <sdandapani(at)counterpane(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: WAL file naming after postmaster restart
Date: 2006-04-20 22:43:17
Message-ID: 20060420224317.GO49405@pervasive.com
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On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 11:05:52AM -0700, Sriram Dandapani wrote:
> I noticed something strange. When postgres crashed and restarted...the
> archived WAL log file numbering did not take off from where it left
> off..instead a new sequence was started (the new sequence was higher
> than the last one before crashing)..Is this the expected behaviour on
> postmaster crash and auto-recover. (I did not do a manual recovery with
> the recover.conf)

I'm not sure why one should care about this, but AFAIK it's normal.
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