On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 08:55:48AM -0500, Ray Stell wrote: > I had set up this streaming replication pair of systems a few days ago and > everything seemed pretty happy as changes were being replicated. I set > it up without wal archiving turned up. The backup log this morning caught > my eye. I find the standby reports to have activated itself. > > I don't see anything in the postmaster logs on this event. > > The backup log caught my eye: > ------------------------------- > pg_start_backup > ----------------- > 1/E0000020 > (1 row) > > NOTICE: WAL archiving is not enabled; you must ensure that all required WAL segments are copied through other means to complete the backup > pg_stop_backup > ---------------- > 1/E00000C4 > (1 row) my bad, this was a path issue, I was using a v8 pg_controldata cmd. the v9 pg_controldata looks good. Sorry. This does not explain the backup/wal archive msg, however. Is that msg normal for a streaming rep set up? -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin