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I have a PostgreSQL 9.1 hot standby slave that had all of its wal files removed. How can I restart the standby server and have the slave resync from the master? Thanks

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I'm sure someone will be along with a full answer, but in brief you'll need to take a new base-backup if you've not got the WAL files required. – Richard Huxton Feb 11 at 9:03

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If the WAL files don't exist anymore anywhere, you need to rebuild the standby from scratch (new base backup). If you still have the WAL files on the master or in an archive somewhere, just change the restore_command in recovery.conf to fetch them from wherever they are.

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