Alex Good wrote: > What I expected to see was the server requesting each WAL file up until > the one which was archived during pg_stop_backup and then the server > would consider itself to be recovered. Clearly I have misunderstood > something here. > > These two servers are actually sat behind pgpool which is in replication > mode (so I don't have streaming replication set up) which I chose > beccause it gives me synchronous replication as well as automatic > failover. I am trying to understand the recovery process so I can use it > to set up pgpools' online recovery feature. Oh, you didn't say that it is about pgpool. You might try to ask their mailing lists: http://www.pgpool.net/mediawiki/index.php/Mailing_lists Yours, Laurenz Albe -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
