Pg 9.6.6 on Ubuntu.
I have a master and a streamer/standby. Streamer runs wal_log_hints=on,
archive_mode=always, archive_command='send it to some repo'.
Promote streamer and make some changes to it.
Halt and run pg_rewind as per my understanding of the docs.
Rewind immediately errors out due to missing wal segments on target
system (streamer).
Same target has a recovery.conf at this point w/restore_command that
knows how to fetch wal segment from 'some repo'. ISTM rewind is
supposed to use it to fetch wals.
Success in same attempt if streamer has archive_command='' thus
retaining wals inside data directory.
Running pg_rewind with --progress --debug shows no indication that it's
trying to use restore command and in fact chmod 0 on the recovery.conf
file makes no difference either.
Am I dreaming that this should work? :-)
Thanks
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