On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 1:20 AM, Eric Simon <esimon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 2012-03-16 10:27:34 CDT LOG: invalid record length at 9/B9F85E78 > 2012-03-16 10:27:34 CDT LOG: streaming replication successfully connected > to primary Just after startup, the standby tries to read and replay the WAL files which exist in the standby, and then if it finds invalid WAL record, IOW, it can no longer read valid WAL record locally, it starts replication and tries to read the WAL files from the master. So the above log message "invalid record ..." means that there is no valid WAL record in the standby, which triggers the replication. Since valid WAL records are streamed from the master, you don't need to worry about that log message. Regards, -- Fujii Masao NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION NTT Open Source Software Center -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin