pg_standby doesnt't work

Hi,

I'm testing serveral days a replication-system with PostgreSQL, but I get allways the same error.

2009-10-25 15:44:45 CET FATAL:  XX000: could not restore file "00000001.history" from archive: return code -1073741811

The restore_command is:

restore_command = 'pg_standby.exe -d -s 5 -t C:\pgsql.trigger.5442 w:\wal-archive %f %p %r 2>>pg_log\pg_standby.log'

The system is runnig on WinXP (during this test), the database-version is 8.3.8. I've tried out the pg_standby-version from PG8.4, but there is no difference in the result.

So I can't understand what this return-code means, (and) I've never seen a file named 00000001.history. It definitely doesn't exist on my master and so my archive_command can't replicate to the slave.

This is all content of 'backup_label' out of my base-backup:

START WAL LOCATION: 0/AE000020 (file 0000000100000000000000AE)
CHECKPOINT LOCATION: 0/AE000020
START TIME: 2009-10-25 14:36:25 CET
LABEL: 25102009_1

I can't get information out of pg_standby.log, there is nothing in.

That's the complete pg-log (debug-level 5):

2009-10-25 15:44:45 CET DEBUG:  00000: forked new backend, pid=1220 socket=1312
2009-10-25 15:44:45 CET LOCATION:  BackendStartup, .\src\backend\postmaster\postmaster.c:2861
2009-10-25 15:44:45 CET LOG:  00000: database system was interrupted; last known up at 2009-10-25 14:36:25 CET
2009-10-25 15:44:45 CET LOCATION:  StartupXLOG, .\src\backend\access\transam\xlog.c:4839
2009-10-25 15:44:45 CET LOG:  00000: starting archive recovery
2009-10-25 15:44:45 CET LOCATION:  readRecoveryCommandFile, .\src\backend\access\transam\xlog.c:4377
2009-10-25 15:44:45 CET LOG:  00000: restore_command = 'pg_standby.exe -d -s 5 -t C:\pgsql.trigger.5442 w:\wal-archive %f %p %r 2>>pg_log\pg_standby.log'
2009-10-25 15:44:45 CET LOCATION:  readRecoveryCommandFile, .\src\backend\access\transam\xlog.c:4423
2009-10-25 15:44:45 CET DEBUG:  00000: executing restore command "pg_standby.exe -d -s 5 -t C:\pgsql.trigger.5442 w:\wal-archive 00000001.history pg_xlog\RECOVERYHISTORY 000000000000000000000000 2>>pg_log\pg_standby.log"
2009-10-25 15:44:45 CET LOCATION:  RestoreArchivedFile, .\src\backend\access\transam\xlog.c:2569
2009-10-25 15:44:45 CET LOG:  00000: loaded library "$libdir/plugins/plugin_debugger.dll"
2009-10-25 15:44:45 CET LOCATION:  load_libraries, .\src\backend\utils\init\miscinit.c:1187
2009-10-25 15:44:45 CET FATAL:  57P03: the database system is starting up
2009-10-25 15:44:45 CET LOCATION:  ProcessStartupPacket, .\src\backend\postmaster\postmaster.c:1648
2009-10-25 15:44:45 CET DEBUG:  00000: proc_exit(1)
2009-10-25 15:44:45 CET LOCATION:  proc_exit, .\src\backend\storage\ipc\ipc.c:98
2009-10-25 15:44:45 CET DEBUG:  00000: shmem_exit(1)
2009-10-25 15:44:45 CET LOCATION:  shmem_exit, .\src\backend\storage\ipc\ipc.c:164
2009-10-25 15:44:45 CET DEBUG:  00000: exit(1)
2009-10-25 15:44:45 CET LOCATION:  proc_exit, .\src\backend\storage\ipc\ipc.c:116
2009-10-25 15:44:45 CET DEBUG:  00000: reaping dead processes
2009-10-25 15:44:45 CET LOCATION:  reaper, .\src\backend\postmaster\postmaster.c:2093
2009-10-25 15:44:45 CET DEBUG:  00000: server process (PID 1220) exited with exit code 1
2009-10-25 15:44:45 CET LOCATION:  LogChildExit, .\src\backend\postmaster\postmaster.c:2520
2009-10-25 15:44:45 CET FATAL:  XX000: could not restore file "00000001.history" from archive: return code -1073741811
2009-10-25 15:44:45 CET LOCATION:  RestoreArchivedFile, .\src\backend\access\transam\xlog.c:2639
2009-10-25 15:44:45 CET DEBUG:  00000: proc_exit(1)
2009-10-25 15:44:45 CET LOCATION:  proc_exit, .\src\backend\storage\ipc\ipc.c:98
2009-10-25 15:44:45 CET DEBUG:  00000: shmem_exit(1)
2009-10-25 15:44:45 CET LOCATION:  shmem_exit, .\src\backend\storage\ipc\ipc.c:164
2009-10-25 15:44:45 CET DEBUG:  00000: exit(1)
2009-10-25 15:44:45 CET LOCATION:  proc_exit, .\src\backend\storage\ipc\ipc.c:116
2009-10-25 15:44:45 CET DEBUG:  00000: reaping dead processes
2009-10-25 15:44:45 CET LOCATION:  reaper, .\src\backend\postmaster\postmaster.c:2093
2009-10-25 15:44:45 CET LOG:  00000: startup process (PID 3820) exited with exit code 1
2009-10-25 15:44:45 CET LOCATION:  LogChildExit, .\src\backend\postmaster\postmaster.c:2520
2009-10-25 15:44:45 CET LOG:  00000: aborting startup due to startup process failure
2009-10-25 15:44:45 CET LOCATION:  reaper, .\src\backend\postmaster\postmaster.c:2113
2009-10-25 15:44:45 CET DEBUG:  00000: proc_exit(1)
2009-10-25 15:44:45 CET LOCATION:  proc_exit, .\src\backend\storage\ipc\ipc.c:98
2009-10-25 15:44:45 CET DEBUG:  00000: shmem_exit(1)
2009-10-25 15:44:45 CET LOCATION:  shmem_exit, .\src\backend\storage\ipc\ipc.c:164
2009-10-25 15:44:45 CET DEBUG:  00000: exit(1)
2009-10-25 15:44:45 CET LOCATION:  proc_exit, .\src\backend\storage\ipc\ipc.c:116
2009-10-25 15:44:46 CET DEBUG:  00000: logger shutting down
2009-10-25 15:44:46 CET LOCATION:  SysLoggerMain, .\src\backend\postmaster\syslogger.c:435
2009-10-25 15:44:46 CET DEBUG:  00000: proc_exit(0)
2009-10-25 15:44:46 CET LOCATION:  proc_exit, .\src\backend\storage\ipc\ipc.c:98
2009-10-25 15:44:46 CET DEBUG:  00000: shmem_exit(0)
2009-10-25 15:44:46 CET LOCATION:  shmem_exit, .\src\backend\storage\ipc\ipc.c:164
2009-10-25 15:44:46 CET DEBUG:  00000: exit(0)
2009-10-25 15:44:46 CET LOCATION:  proc_exit, .\src\backend\storage\ipc\ipc.c:116

thx a lot,

murphy