Michael Angeletti wrote: > I'm Michael, and this is my first post here. > > I asked this question last night: > > > http://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/45077 > > > which details the problem (or not?) I'm having. The gist of it is that Postgres is not archiving the > first WAL segments for my cluster. You'll note that I changed the wal_level from "minimal" to > "hot_standby" at the same time as I turned archiving on. I'm not sure if A) that's a no-no (changing > the wal_level after a new cluster has started once), B) it's a bug/problem to have my archives > starting at the 6th log, despite the first 5 still being in pg_xlog, C) if my switching of wal_level > has anything to do with the issue, and D) if I need to start over with a fresh database or something, > in order to remedy the issue. I can't answer the question without digging deeper, but I wonder why you care. It is not necessary to have all WAL segments archived, but only the ones after your first base backup. And you won't be able to make a base backup before you turn wal_level to "archive" or higher. 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
