Re: archive_active file.

Hi Anthony,

On 9/29/20 1:40 PM, Anthony, Craig Talmadge wrote:
>    I recently built a postgresql 12 server and forgot to turn on WAL
> archiving. I modified my postgresql.conf file and stopped/started the
> server.  After a day and many WAL files being generated archiving did
> not start until I found a suggestion to create and empty archive_active
> file in my archived WAL segments directory. When I did this archiving
> began. Does anyone know  why archiving didn't start after the stop and
> restart and can anyone tell me that the archive_active file is a
> specific postgresql file or is it just that the archived WAL segments
> location has to have a file in it before archiving begins?

More detail here would be good. What archive_command did you configure?

An archive_active file is not expected by core postgres so I suspect you
are either using an alternate distribution or an archive command that
requires this file.

Regards,
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-David
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