On September 26, 2011 05:49:50 AM Venkat Balaji wrote: > I tried restoring the backup, after taking the full backup. > > Below is what i see in the "archive destination". > > Postgres was asking for "00000001000001930000006F" and i tried to find the > same and below is what i find... > > -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 3.3M Sep 26 02:06 > 00000001000001930000006F.gz -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 219 Sep 26 > 02:53 > 00000001000001930000006F.00328508.backup.gz > > Why is PG (9.0) putting an extension for the WAL Archive file as > > "backup.gz" ?? > The archive files are created by your archive_command, as specified in postgresql.conf. My guess would be that your archive command runs the files through gzip as part of archiving (which is fine). However, the restore_command you specify in recovery.conf must undo this compression. So instead of (for example) 'cp -f "%f" "%p"', it might instead need to look like 'zcat "%f" > "%p"'. Hope this helps. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
