Re: Unix Postgres 9.5. using pg_basebackup and WAL files. Can't get a PITR recovery

On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 10:09 AM, Pruett, Jennis
<Jennis(dot)Pruett(at)leidos(dot)com> wrote:
> I can't cut and paste my issues, so I will explain as best I can.
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> I’m testing PITR on a single 9.5 db (no replication setups).
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> I have all the settings that I can find, wal_level, archive_command,
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> restore_command, directories defined, logs defined. My WAL files are stored
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> another area with gzip in the archive_command. The restore_command also uses
> gunzip. Those work fine.
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> (pg_xresetlog seems to work OK too)
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> I can restore from a pg_basebackup, but if I define PITR in recovery.conf
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> pg_basebackup in place, I can't get to that point in time.

What does the server log file say?

You should see something like this:

3071 2016-07-20 08:02:00.698 PDT LOG: database system was
interrupted; last known up at 2016-07-14 12:59:39 PDT
3071 2016-07-20 08:02:04.503 PDT LOG: starting point-in-time
recovery to 2016-07-19 13:50:00-07
3071 2016-07-20 08:02:04.872 PDT LOG: restored log file
"00000002.history" from archive

What do you see instead?

Cheers,

Jeff