Jeff Frost <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hurray! Unfortunately, the postmaster on the original troubled server almost > never gets restarted, and in fact only has only one archiver process running > right now. Drat! Well, the fact that there's only one archiver *now* doesn't mean there wasn't more than one when the problem happened. The orphaned archiver would eventually quit. Do you have logs that would let you check when the production postmaster was restarted? regards, tom lane