Re: Re: Slave enters in recovery and promotes when WAL stream with master is cut + delay master/slave

On 17.01.2013 20:08, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2013-01-18 03:05:47 +0900, Fujii Masao wrote:
>> I encountered the problem that the timeline switch is not performed expectedly.
>> I set up one master, one standby and one cascade standby. All the servers
>> share the archive directory. restore_command is specified in the recovery.conf
>> in those two standbys.
>>
>> I shut down the master, and then promoted the standby. In this case, the
>> cascade standby should switch to new timeline and replication should be
>> successfully restarted. But the timeline was never changed, and the following
>> log messages were kept outputting.
>>
>> sby2 LOG:  restarted WAL streaming at 0/3000000 on timeline 1
>> sby2 LOG:  replication terminated by primary server
>> sby2 DETAIL:  End of WAL reached on timeline 1
>> sby2 LOG:  restarted WAL streaming at 0/3000000 on timeline 1
>> sby2 LOG:  replication terminated by primary server
>> sby2 DETAIL:  End of WAL reached on timeline 1
>> sby2 LOG:  restarted WAL streaming at 0/3000000 on timeline 1
>> sby2 LOG:  replication terminated by primary server
>> sby2 DETAIL:  End of WAL reached on timeline 1
>> ....
>
> That's after the commit or before? Because in passing I think I
> noticed/fixed a bug that could cause exactly that problem...

I think I broke that with the "teach pg_receivexlog to cross timelines" 
patch. Will take a look...

- Heikki