Re: Critical failure of standby - Mailing list pgsql-general

Hey,

I understand that.

But a hot standby should always be ready to promote (given it originally caught up) right?

I think it's a moot point really as some sort of corruption has been introduced, the machines still won't wouldn't start after they could see the archive destination again.

Cheers,

James Sewell,

Solutions Architect 

 

Suite 112, Jones Bay Wharf, 26-32 Pirrama Road, Pyrmont NSW 2009

P (+61) 2 8099 9000  W www.jirotech.com  F (+61) 2 8099 9099

On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 12:36 PM, John R Pierce <pierce@hogranch.com> wrote:

On 8/15/2016 7:23 PM, James Sewell wrote:

Those are all good questions.

Essentially this is a situation where DR is network separated from Prod - so I would expect the archive command to fail. I'll have to check the script it must not be passing the error back through to PostgreSQL.

This still shouldn't cause database corruption though right? - it's just not getting WALs.

if the slave database is asking for the WAL's, it needs them. if it needs them and can't get them, then it can't catch up and start.



--
john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz



--
Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org)
To make changes to your subscription:
http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general

---

The contents of this email are confidential and may be subject to legal or professional privilege and copyright. No representation is made that this email is free of viruses or other defects. If you have received this communication in error, you may not copy or distribute any part of it or otherwise disclose its contents to anyone. Please advise the sender of your incorrect receipt of this correspondence.