On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 07:34:11PM +0530, Jahnavi Chintakunta wrote: > > > When the standy server is stopped, then the pg_xlog's in the master server are stagnant. Sorry, I've never seen this before. What is archive_timeout set to? template1=# show archive_timeout; archive_timeout ----------------- 15min (1 row) Also, this may be completely bogus, but I remember asking myself if this was valid: archive_command = <scp %p $STANDBYNODE:$PGARCHIVE/%f> I've always seen it inside single quotes. -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin