Re: wal archive showing zero size

mail list <mailist(at)milidonis(dot)com> writes:

> I have WAL archiving enabled and after a failure the other day i tried
> to restre using teh wal archives i had .
> However one of the WAL archives appera to be 0 bytes and therefore i
> cannot restore the wal archives getting the following error

Start by seeing if an identically named file is in your master's pg_xlog
directory and if so, is it the proper size?

>
> FATAL: archive file "000000010000000000000010" has wrong size: 0
> instead of 16777216
>
>
> list of some of the archives
>
> -rw------- 3 postgres postgres 16777216 Jun 7 08:34
> 00000001000000000000000B
> -rw------- 3 postgres postgres 16777216 Jun 8 03:14
> 00000001000000000000000C
> -rw------- 3 postgres postgres 16777216 Jun 8 21:44
> 00000001000000000000000D
> -rw------- 3 postgres postgres 16777216 Jun 9 16:24
> 00000001000000000000000E
> -rw------- 3 postgres postgres 16777216 Jun 10 11:04
> 00000001000000000000000F
> -rw------- 3 postgres postgres 0 Jun 10 17:38
> 000000010000000000000010
> -rw------- 3 postgres postgres 16777216 Jun 11 11:54
> 000000010000000000000011
> -rw------- 3 postgres postgres 16777216 Jun 12 05:51
> 000000010000000000000012
> -rw------- 3 postgres postgres 16777216 Jun 13 01:58
> 000000010000000000000013
> -rw------- 3 postgres postgres 16777216 Jun 13 20:38
> 000000010000000000000014
> -rw------- 3 postgres postgres 16777216 Jun 14 15:28
> 000000010000000000000015
> -rw------- 3 postgres postgres 16777216 Jun 15 09:58
> 000000010000000000000016
> -rw------- 3 postgres postgres 16777216 Jun 16 04:28
> 000000010000000000000017
> -rw------- 3 postgres postgres 16777216 Jun 16 23:28
> 000000010000000000000018
> -rw------- 3 postgres postgres 16777216 Jun 17 18:12
> 000000010000000000000019
>
> Is there a way around this?

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