Re: restore_command ignored in recovery.conf on standby

* Rene Romero Benavides (rene(dot)romero(dot)b(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
> Yep, I checked:
>
> [postgres(at)uxmal standby_node]$ /bin/tar -xzf
> /db/wal_archives/00000001000001ED000000FB.tar.gz -C
> /db/standby_node/pg_xlog/
> [postgres(at)uxmal standby_node]$ echo $?
> 0

Err, sure, but that isn't actually what is being passed via %p. %p will
be something like 'pg_xlog/RECOVERY_WAL', as I said, which *won't* work
for your tar command, eg:

sfrost(at)tamriel:/home/sfrost> tar -xzf zz.tar.gz -C zz/zz
tar: zz/zz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
sfrost(at)tamriel:/home/sfrost> echo $?
2

> [postgres(at)uxmal standby_node]$ ls /db/standby_node/pg_xlog/ | grep
> 00000001000001ED000000FB
> 00000001000001ED000000FB

Noooo, PG tells you via %p the *specific* filename to use, do not just
overwrite files in pg_xlog willy-nilly with a tar command.

Thanks,

Stephen