Re: Wal fetching standby refuses to promote - Mailing list pgsql-admin

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Subject Re: Wal fetching standby refuses to promote
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In response to Wal fetching standby refuses to promote  (Jerry Sievers <gsievers19@comcast.net>)
Responses Re: Wal fetching standby refuses to promote  (Steven Crandell <steven.crandell@gmail.com>)
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You can try to add the trigger file in recovery.conf and perform a promote. Never tried but should work. 
On Thursday, March 15, 2018, 10:56:06 AM PDT, Jerry Sievers <gsievers19@comcast.net> wrote:


This was an atomic snapshot put in recovery and happily reading WALs
from the repo.

It's consistent and allows read-only querying.  It's replayed a few days
worth of WALs and was previously running with a recovery_target_xid =
$some-xid which apparently was never hit and/or aborted.

It would not promote then, after pg_ctl promote.  The 'promote' file did
get created in pgdata.

Now it's running again with recovery.conf that contains just...

standby_mode = on
restore_command = 'cp /somedir/%f %p'

Still it fails to respond to the issuance of a promote.

There is no trigger file config's in recovery.conf and we have never
needed to do same since pg_ctl promote usually works.

Any idea what's causing this?

Thanks

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