pedro noticioso <cucnews@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I created a log of my complete procedure so far, and > the error message at the end, pleasse help me find > exactly what is wrong, thanks It looks to me like you've gotten confused about which installation is the original and which is the attempted recovery. This log message: > LOG: database system was shut down at 2007-02-15 should certainly not appear if you were starting a postmaster in a database tree that had been copied from a live installation. Also, the next line ought to be "starting archive recovery"; since it's not, that means the postmaster didn't see a recovery.conf file. regards, tom lane