Re: WAL Archiving problem

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Norberto Dellê <betodelle(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: WAL Archiving problem
Date: 2007-09-01 17:17:13
Message-ID: 21918.1188667033@sss.pgh.pa.us
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=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Norberto_Dell=EA?= <betodelle(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I have a PostgreSQL 8.2.4 installation running under Windows XP with WAL
> archiving activated.
> But at some point Postgres began to ask to archive a WAL segment that
> isn't in the pg_xlog directory. I thought that a segment that isn't
> succesfully
> archived should remain in the pg_xlog directory, or am i wrong?

Do you have the postmaster log from around the time that this started
happening? I'm wondering about a file rename() failing, or some such.

What files do you have, exactly, in pg_xlog and pg_xlog/archive_status?
It'd be useful to see their modification timestamps as well as their
names.

regards, tom lane

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