Did anyone see this? This seems like a pretty grave problem in
streaming replication.
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu> wrote:
> I tried to set up a simple master/slave setup and immediately ran into
> this assertion failure. The slave is just a cold copy of the database
> immediately after initdb. The first WAL segment hasn't been archived
> yet. It sees that the first archive fail hasn't been archived yet,
> starts up walreceiver but it looks like the start point hasn't been
> initialized yet because it hasn't processed any checkpoint WAL records
> yet.
>
> $ /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres -D /var/tmp/pg85/s/
> LOG: database system was shut down at 2010-02-23 14:30:08 GMT
> cp: cannot stat `/var/tmp/pg85/w/000000010000000000000000': No such
> file or directory
> TRAP: FailedAssertion("!(startpoint.xlogid != 0 || startpoint.xrecoff
> != 0)", File: "libpqwalreceiver.c", Line: 87)
> LOG: WAL receiver process (PID 3536) was terminated by signal 6: Aborted
> LOG: terminating any other active server processes
> LOG: startup process (PID 3534) exited with exit code 2
> LOG: aborting startup due to startup process failure
>
>
> --
> greg
>
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greg
