On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 3:00 AM, Joey K. <pguser@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have been doing PITR backups for a while to a backup server via NFS. It's
> working great.
>
> I have to shutdown the backup server for hardware/OS upgrade. I expect this
> upgrade will last a week.
>
> How do I turn off PITR in the mean time? I commented archive_command and
> issued a pg_ctl reload and postgres is *still* archiving logs to the backup
> server.
Unfortunately there is delay in the archiver actually reloading the
configuration
change. If there are 10 .ready files in pg_xlog/archive_status, you might have
to wait for the reloading until the archiver finish archiving 10 WAL files.
Regards,
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Fujii Masao
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
NTT Open Source Software Center