Hi Kyotaro, This helped, thanks. Regards, Meera -----Original Message----- From: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@xxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, September 5, 2022 7:31 AM To: Meera Nair <mnair@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: guillaume@xxxxxxxxxxxx; pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Punit Pranesh Koujalgi <pkoujalgi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Unable to archive logs in standby server External email. Inspect before opening. At Tue, 30 Aug 2022 05:22:56 +0000, Meera Nair <mnair@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in > Hi Guillaume/team, > > I set archive_mode = always in master and standby. > Archival to standby WAL directory completed when > > * standby server was restarted > * pg_stop_backup was executed in master > > But archival hangs when pg_stop_backup is executed in standby. > Could someone help to get this working? https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.postgresql.org%2Fdocs%2F12%2Fcontinuous-archiving.html&data=05%7C01%7Cmnair%40commvault.com%7C240c3d6f31074e32206c08da8ee277fe%7C40ed1e38a16e46229d7c45161b6969d5%7C0%7C0%7C637979400603662396%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=UHsS8ZG1Vll0z8p3ce6WPfm3IniqVYMtOPfin3Lahbg%3D&reserved=0 > In the same connection as before, issue the command: > > SELECT * FROM pg_stop_backup(false, true); > > This terminates backup mode. On a primary, it also performs an > automatic switch to the next WAL segment. On a standby, it is not > possible to automatically switch WAL segments, so you may wish to run > pg_switch_wal on the primary to perform a manual switch. The reason > for the switch is to arrange for the last WAL segment file written > during the backup interval to be ready to archive. regards. -- Kyotaro Horiguchi NTT Open Source Software Center