Re: Recovery continually requests new WAL files

Alex Good wrote:
> Although pgpool is involved this isn't actually about pgpool, I've
been
> running through the recovery process manually to try and understand
what
> needs to be done in order to get onlinve recovery working with pgpool.
> Pgpool isn't actually running at the moment.

Oh, I see.

> Anyway, I think what I had misunderstood was the meaning of the
> 'standby_mode' parameter in recovery.conf. If I remove that then the
> process behaves as I expect it to except that the restoring server
ends
> up restoring to a new timeline, I would prefer that it be on the same
> timeline as the master, I have set recovery_target_timeline = 'latest'
> in recovery.conf but this still increments the timeline. Is there any
> way to get the recovery to stay on the same timeline other than
> explicitly specifying the timeline?

That's why I asked if this is about streaming replication.

It is by design that a new timeline is opened after recovery.
This is to tell the WAL sequence from before and after recovery apart.
Is it a problem for you?

Yours,
Laurenz Albe