Re: Strange issues with 9.2 pg_basebackup & replication

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>

From: Joshua Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-05-15T18:43:57Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> Before restarting it, you need to do pg_basebackup and make a base
> backup
> onto the standby again. Since you started the standby without
> recovery.conf,
> a series of WAL in the standby has gotten inconsistent with that in
> the master.
> So you need a fresh backup to restart the standby.

You're not understanding the bug.  The problem is that the standby came up and reported that it was replicating OK, when clearly it wasn't.

--Josh