On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Daniel Farina <daniel@heroku.com> wrote:
> Having digged at this a little -- but not too much -- the problem
> seems to be that postgres is reading the commit logs way, way too
> early, that is to say, before it has played enough WAL to be
> 'consistent' (the WAL between pg_start and pg_stop backup). I have
> not been able to reproduce this problem (I think) after the message
> from postgres suggesting it has reached a consistent state; at that
> time I am able to go into hot-standby mode.
The WAL appears too early because the other control info is later than
it should be.
So this is approx backwards and nothing related to consistent state,
but thanks for drawing my attention to this.
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