Marc Schablewski <ms@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > ... When looking for a reason why the WAL weren't shipped, we found > the following error message: > 2008-10-31 17:07:52 CET 9162LOG: received smart shutdown request > 2008-10-31 17:07:52 CET 9178FATAL: could not restore file > "000000010000008600000018" from archive: return code 15 Something sent SIGTERM to both your postmaster (hence the "smart shutdown" message) and the recovery_command script (causing it to exit with code 15, which is probably SIGTERM though you might want to check kill -l to be sure). You need to find out what's doing that and make it stop. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general