Re: Standby pg_dump Conflict with Recovery - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Adrian Klaver
Subject Re: Standby pg_dump Conflict with Recovery
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Msg-id 562025CC.9040302@aklaver.com
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In response to Standby pg_dump Conflict with Recovery  (Louis Battuello <louis.battuello@etasseo.com>)
Responses Re: Standby pg_dump Conflict with Recovery  (Louis Battuello <louis.battuello@etasseo.com>)
List pgsql-general
On 10/15/2015 03:03 PM, Louis Battuello wrote:
> Hell All,
>
> I’ve got a confusing issue with dumping data from a standby PostgreSQL
> 9.4.5 database.
>
> At night, on a nearly completely idle server, I run a pg_dump of a
> database that contains numerous small tables and one 3GB table. The
> dump consistently fails when reaching the 3GB table with this message:
>
> pg_dump: Dumping the contents of table “<table>" failed: PQgetResult()
> failed.
> pg_dump: Error message from server: ERROR:  canceling statement due to
> conflict with recovery
> DETAIL:  User query might have needed to see row versions that must be
> removed.
> pg_dump: The command was: COPY <table> (...) TO stdout;
>
> I have replication slots enabled on the primary (“repmgr_slot_3" for the
> standby pg_dump source), and I’m using hot_standby_feedback. After
> getting the failure a couple times, I temporarily set
> max_standby_archive_delay and max_standby_streaming_delay to -1 to allow
> infinite delay on the standby,  just to see if I could get the dump to
> complete. I still encountered the above error.

How did you set and temporarily enable the settings?

>
>
> postgres=# select * from pg_replication_slots ;
>     slot_name   | plugin | slot_type | datoid | database | active
> |  xmin   | catalog_xmin | restart_lsn
> ---------------+--------+-----------+--------+----------+--------+---------+--------------+-------------
>   repmgr_slot_2 |        | physical  |        |          | t      |
>      |              | A/C6502880
>   repmgr_slot_3 |        | physical  |        |          | t      |
> 1356283 |              | A/C6502880
> (2 rows)
>
> Is there some other configuration setting I’m forgetting?
>
> Thanks,
> Louis
>


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