Switch off PITR

In response to "Joey K." <pguser@gmail.com>:

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.

Pretty sure you're going to need a full restart -- reload won't cause
that parameter to be re-evaluated.

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On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 13:16 -0500, Bill Moran wrote:

In response to "Joey K." <pguser@gmail.com>:

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.

Pretty sure you're going to need a full restart -- reload won't cause
that parameter to be re-evaluated.

You can change archive_command to something like /bin/true and reload.
However you will have to do a full base backup to get postgresql doing
log shipping again.

Joshua D. Drake

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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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On Wednesday 03 December 2008 14:22:28 Joshua D. Drake wrote:

On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 13:16 -0500, Bill Moran wrote:

In response to "Joey K." <pguser@gmail.com>:

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.

Pretty sure you're going to need a full restart -- reload won't cause
that parameter to be re-evaluated.

You can change archive_command to something like /bin/true and reload.
However you will have to do a full base backup to get postgresql doing
log shipping again.

You can probably avoid this by having your archive command put the xlogs
somewhere local, and then once you restart setting up the archive command to
push back to your backup and then moving the missing logs manually. (This is
more/less fragile depending on exactly how you've set things up, but should
be doable)

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