I'm using PostgreSQL 9.0rc1 and can't fathom what I've missed here. I ran pg_start_backup() on my primary, did a filesystem backup and restore to the standby, configured the conf files on both appropriately and issued a pg_stop_backup() on the primary again. I brought the standby up but I'm getting the following in the log: 2010-09-19 12:32:35 BST LOG: entering standby mode 2010-09-19 12:32:35 BST LOG: redo starts at 1/2F000020 2010-09-19 12:32:35 BST LOG: record with zero length at 1/2F0000B0 2010-09-19 12:32:35 BST LOG: streaming replication successfully connected to primary 2010-09-19 12:32:36 BST LOG: incomplete startup packet 2010-09-19 12:32:36 BST FATAL: the database system is starting up 2010-09-19 12:32:37 BST FATAL: the database system is starting up 2010-09-19 12:32:37 BST FATAL: the database system is starting up 2010-09-19 12:32:38 BST FATAL: the database system is starting up 2010-09-19 12:32:38 BST FATAL: the database system is starting up 2010-09-19 12:32:39 BST FATAL: the database system is starting up 2010-09-19 12:32:39 BST FATAL: the database system is starting up 2010-09-19 12:32:40 BST FATAL: the database system is starting up 2010-09-19 12:32:40 BST FATAL: the database system is starting up 2010-09-19 12:32:41 BST FATAL: the database system is starting up 2010-09-19 12:32:41 BST LOG: consistent recovery state reached at 1/30000000 2010-09-19 12:32:41 BST FATAL: the database system is starting up 2010-09-19 12:32:41 BST LOG: incomplete startup packet 2010-09-19 12:32:54 BST FATAL: the database system is starting up 2010-09-19 12:35:26 BST FATAL: the database system is starting up 2010-09-19 12:38:44 BST FATAL: the database system is starting up Got these appearing in the process list too: postgres: startup process recovering 000000010000000100000030 postgres: wal receiver process streaming 1/300001D0 That last one changed to its current value after I issued a checkpoint on the primary, but the first one doesn't change. But I cannot connect to the standby as it's stuck in recovery. The standby's recovery.conf has hot_standby set to "on" (set before bringing online of course). What am I not doing? -- Thom Brown Twitter: @darkixion IRC (freenode): dark_ixion Registered Linux user: #516935 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
