Alex Good wrote:
> What I expected to see was the server requesting each WAL file up
until
> the one which was archived during pg_stop_backup and then the server
> would consider itself to be recovered. Clearly I have misunderstood
> something here.
>
> These two servers are actually sat behind pgpool which is in
replication
> mode (so I don't have streaming replication set up) which I chose
> beccause it gives me synchronous replication as well as automatic
> failover. I am trying to understand the recovery process so I can use
it
> to set up pgpools' online recovery feature.
Oh, you didn't say that it is about pgpool.
You might try to ask their mailing lists:
http://www.pgpool.net/mediawiki/index.php/Mailing_lists
Yours,
Laurenz Albe