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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