Re: Trying to use binary replication - from tutorial

I pretty much didn't change anything in the config files except what was in
the tutorial at http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Binary_Replication_Tutorial

on the slave I created a recovery.conf file containing:
standby_mode = 'on'
primary_conninfo = 'host=<servers ip here>'

on the master postgresql.conf I set
listen_address = '*'
wav_level = hot_standby
max_wal_senders = 3

I didn't change any of postgresql.conf Archiving settings. They all seem to
be commented out. Could that be the problem?

Evan

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Mark Keisler <qa4437(at)motorola(dot)com> wrote:

> Do not rsync the pg_xlog. Basically that error means that the
> restore_command in your recovery.conf is not working. You have hot_standby
> archiving going on the master and a recovery_command on the slave, right?
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> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Evan Walter <ewalter(at)decisionanalyst(dot)com
> > wrote:
>
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>>
>> Hello,
>> I am somewhat new with postgresql trying to find a good method of
>> replication for my company.
>> I am running through the tutorials on binary replication for postgresql
>> 9.1. Both servers are virtual box Ubuntu 10.10 on a laptop.
>>
>> I ran this rsync -av --exclude pg_xlog --exclude postgresql.conf
>> /var/lib/postgresql/9.1/main/* postgres:<ip-address of
>> standby>:/var/lib/postgresql/9.1/main/
>>
>> The standby server then will not restart. It says it is missing
>> pg_xlog/0000000000 ... files
>>
>> I ran the rsync again not excluding the pg_xlog. This time both servers
>> restart but there doesn't seem to be any replication occurring.
>>
>> I am curious why this is going on - why it didn't work excluding the
>> pg_xlog. Was there something wrong with my syntax? Is there something I am
>> missing not found in the tutorial?
>> I will appreciate any help, advice.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Evan
>>
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