Sorry for the confusion, I am by no means a postgresql guru. In my other slave servers I don't have the message: 2016-03-07 16:23:36 UTC ERROR: cannot execute UNLISTEN during recovery 2016-03-07 16:23:36 UTC STATEMENT: unlisten * In the logs once they are caught up to the master. It also doesn't seem to switch to standby mode properly and stream from the master. When I restart, it replays the WAL files since the last restart from the archive. This data should have been streamed from the master, no? standby_mode = 'on' primary_conninfo = 'user=<replicationuser> password=<mypassword> host=masterserver port=5432 sslmode=prefer sslcompression=1 krbsrvname=postgres' restore_command = 'copy "\\\\archivefileserver\\BACKUP\\DatabaseBackups\\wal_archive\\%f" "%p"' Stephen Kuntz | Systems Administrator Pelmorex Media Inc. T: 905.829.1159 x1376 -----Original Message----- From: pgsql-admin-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pgsql-admin-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of MirrorX Sent: Monday, March 7, 2016 11:13 AM To: pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: WAL replay asking for very old WAL sorry i don't follow. the server will stay in recovery mode as long as a recovery.conf file exists and the host is set up to receive xlogs via streaming from the master. this seems to be the case according to the logs, if i am not wrong. what it is you want to happen? the server to stop applying records and come online in r/w mode? in this case you could promote the server. or if you want just to apply some wal files and then come online then i think you have misconfigured your recovery.conf. i would suggest you paste here what your recovery.conf contains and what the objective is Best, -- View this message in context: http://postgresql.nabble.com/WAL-replay-asking-for-very-old-WAL-tp5891050p5891074.html Sent from the PostgreSQL - admin mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin