Re: restore_command ignored in recovery.conf on standby

[Rene Romero Benavides <rene.romero.b@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yep, I checked:

[postgres@uxmal standby_node]$ /bin/tar -xzf /db/wal_archives/00000001000001ED000000FB.tar.gz -C /db/standby_node/pg_xlog/
[postgres@uxmal standby_node]$ echo $?
0
[postgres@uxmal standby_node]$ ls /db/standby_node/pg_xlog/ | grep 00000001000001ED000000FB
00000001000001ED000000FB

I read somewhere that in order for the extracted file to be placed at a custom location you had to use that option -C

I'll try rewriting the command and debug it. Thanks for your comment.

2014-04-13 21:39 GMT-05:00 Stephen Frost <sfrost@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

Rene,

* Rene Romero Benavides (rene.romero.b@xxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> restore_command='/bin/tar -xzf /db/wal_archives/%f.tar.gz -C %p'

[...]

> I tested the restore_command replacing variables and it works. Any ideas on
> why it isn't being executed?

Are you sure that it isn't being executed and just immediately returning
'1' (meaning 'false'- aka, done with recovery)?

The -C option to tar is supposed to be "change directory" according to
the tar that I've got, and %p is the complete file name that PG wants
the WAL file to be copied to- it's not a directory (it's something like
pg_xlog/RECOVERY_WAL).

        Thanks,

                Stephen

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