Cliff de Carteret wrote:
> I have now deleted the copy on the remote wal_archive folder and the
> archiving is now functioning and sending the logs from the local to the
> remote folder. The remote database does not startup and the following is in
> the log:
>
> LOG: database system was shut down in recovery at 2013-01-22 10:54:48 GMT
> LOG: entering standby mode
> LOG: restored log file "00000001000000AB00000051" from archive
> LOG: invalid resource manager ID in primary checkpoint record
> PANIC: could not locate a valid checkpoint record
> LOG: startup process (PID 22350) was terminated by signal 6: Aborted
> LOG: aborting startup due to startup process failure
>
> 00000001000000AB00000051 is in my remote database's pg_xlog folder
Any chance that there was a pg_start_backup() call on the master without
a matching pg_stop_backup() call?
-Kevin