Re: Trying to handle db corruption 9.6 - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Mariel Cherkassky
Subject Re: Trying to handle db corruption 9.6
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Msg-id CA+t6e1k0PdBd9uwTD+BwqwfN4UNtVZht2FSEvpjS_m4Jog7xhA@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Trying to handle db corruption 9.6  (Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: Trying to handle db corruption 9.6  (Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>)
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Tomas : 

Well, when you say it does not work, why do you think so? Does it print
some error, or what? Does it even get executed? It does not seem to be
the case, judging by the log (there's no archive_command message).

How was the "secondary machine" created? You said you have all the WAL
since then - how do you know that?  


Well, when I start the secondary in recovery mode (the primary is down, auto failover is disabled..)  it doesnt start recovering the archive wals from the primary. The logs of the secondary : 
receiving incremental file list
rsync: link_stat "/var/lib/pgsql/archive/00000002.history" failed: No such file or directory (2)

sent 8 bytes  received 10 bytes  36.00 bytes/sec
total size is 0  speedup is 0.00
rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1505) [receiver=3.0.6]
sh: /var/lib/pgsql/archive/00000002.history: No such file or directory
2019-05-20 09:41:33 PDT  18558  LOG:  entering standby mode
2019-05-20 09:41:33 PDT  18558  LOG:  invalid primary checkpoint record
2019-05-20 09:41:33 PDT  18558  LOG:  invalid secondary checkpoint link in control file
2019-05-20 09:41:33 PDT  18558  PANIC:  could not locate a valid checkpoint record
2019-05-20 09:41:33 PDT  18555  LOG:  startup process (PID 18558) was terminated by signal 6: Aborted
2019-05-20 09:41:33 PDT  18555  LOG:  aborting startup due to startup process failure
2019-05-20 09:41:33 PDT  18555  LOG:  database system is shut down
2019-05-20 09:56:12 PDT  18701  LOG:  database system was shut down in recovery at 2019-05-01 09:40:02 PDT

As I said, the secondary was down for a month and I have all the archives of the wals in my primary. I was hoping that the secondary will use the restore_command to restore them :
restore_command = 'rsync -avzhe ssh postgres@X.X.X.X:/var/lib/pgsql/archive/%f /var/lib/pgsql/archive/%f ; gunzip < /var/lib/pgsql/archive/%f > %p'

my archive_command on the primary was : 
archive_command = 'gzip < %p > /var/lib/pgsql/archive/%f'

Am I missing something ?

Another question, If I'll run initdb and initiate a new cluster and i'll copy the data files of my old cluster into the new one, is there any chance that it will work ?
I mean right now, my primary is down and cant start up because it is missing an offset file in the pg_multixtrans/offset dir.

‫בתאריך יום ג׳, 21 במאי 2019 ב-0:04 מאת ‪Tomas Vondra‬‏ <‪tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com‬‏>:‬
On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 08:20:33PM +0300, Mariel Cherkassky wrote:
>   Hey Greg,
>   Basically my backup was made after the first pg_resetxlog so I was wrong.

Bummer.

>   However, the customer had a secondary machine that wasn't synced for a
>   month. I have all the walls since the moment the secondary went out of
>   sync. Once I started it I hoped that it will start recover the wals and
>   fill the gap. However I got an error in the secondary :         
>    2019-05-20 10:11:28 PDT  19021  LOG:  entering standby mode
>   2019-05-20 10:11:28 PDT  19021  LOG:  invalid primary checkpoint record
>   2019-05-20 10:11:28 PDT  19021  LOG:  invalid secondary checkpoint link in
>   control file
>   2019-05-20 10:11:28 PDT  19021  PANIC:  could not locate a valid
>   checkpoint record
>   2019-05-20 10:11:28 PDT  19018  LOG:  startup process (PID 19021) was
>   terminated by signal 6: Aborted
>   2019-05-20 10:11:28 PDT  19018  LOG:  aborting startup due to startup
>   process failure
>   2019-05-20 10:11:28 PDT  19018  LOG:  database system is shut down.       
>                       I checked my secondary archive dir and pg_xlog dir and
>   it seems that the restore command doesnt work. My restore_command:      
>   restore_command = 'rsync -avzhe ssh
>   postgres@x.x.x.x:/var/lib/pgsql/archive/%f /var/lib/pgsql/archive/%f ;
>   gunzip < /var/lib/pgsql/archive/%f > %p'
>   archive_cleanup_command = '/usr/pgsql-9.6/bin/pg_archivecleanup
>   /var/lib/pgsql/archive %r'

Well, when you say it does not work, why do you think so? Does it print
some error, or what? Does it even get executed? It does not seem to be
the case, judging by the log (there's no archive_command message).

How was the "secondary machine" created? You said you have all the WAL
since then - how do you know that?


regards

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