Re: archive_command fails but works outside of Postgres

> On Aug 19, 2017, at 04:05, twoflower <standa(dot)kurik(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Alvaro Herrera-9 wrote
> I saw one installation with "gsutil cp" in archive_command recently. It had the CLOUDSDK_PYTHON environment variable set in the archive_command itself. Maybe that's a problem.
> After all, this was the solution:
> archive_command = 'CLOUDSDK_PYTHON=/usr/bin/python gsutil cp /storage/postgresql/9.6/main/pg_xlog/%p gs://my_bucket/'
> as also hinted in https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gsutil/issues/402
>
> I still don't understand why the environments differ (the context of archive_command vs. "su postgres -" and executing it there) but I am happy it's working now. Thank you!

If postgres is running under systemd, you'll have a wildly different environment than if you just su to postgres.

--Scott

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