Re: Strange issues with 9.2 pg_basebackup & replication

Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>

From: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>

To: Joshua Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>

Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2012-05-16T15:53:11Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 3:43 AM, Joshua Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.

> 8. Got this fatal error on the standby server:
>
> LOG:  record with incorrect prev-link 0/70000B8 at 0/70000E0
> LOG:  record with incorrect prev-link 0/70000B8 at 0/70000E0
>
> ... this error message repeated every 5s.

According to your first report, ISTM you got error messages.

Regards,

-- 
Fujii Masao