Re: corrupted indexes when using base backups generated from hot standby

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On 09.01.2013 20:28, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
Greetings,
I'm running postgres-9.2.2 in a Linux-x86_64 cluster with 1 master and
several hot standby servers.  Since upgrading to 9.2.2 from 9.1.x a
few months ago, I switched from generating a base backup on the
master, to generating it on a dedicated slave/standby (to reduce the
load on the master).  The command that I've always used to generate
the base backup is:
pg_basebackup -v -D /tmp/bb0 -x -Ft -U postgres

However, I've noticed that whenever I use the base backup generated
from the standby to create a new standby server, many of the indexes
are corrupted.  This was never the case when I was generating the
basebackup directly from the master.  Now, I see errors similar to the
following when running queries against the tables that own the
indexes:
INDEX "debugger_2013_01_dacode_idx" contains unexpected zero page at block 12
HINT:  Please REINDEX it.
INDEX "smoke32on64tests_2013_01_suiteid_idx" contains unexpected zero
page at block 111
HINT:  Please REINDEX it.

I've confirmed that the errors/corruption doesn't exist on the server
that is generating the base backup (I can run the same SQL query which
fails on the new standby, successfully).  So it seems that I'm
potentially misunderstanding some part of the process.  My setup
process is to simply untar the basebackup in the $PGDATA directory,
and copy over all the WAL logs into $PGDATA/pg_xlog.

That process sounds correct. Since you're using pg_basebackup -x option, you don't even need to copy the WAL logs, although it shouldn't do any harm either . The tar file should contain everything needed to restore the backup.

Can you provide more information? The log output would be nice. How large is the database? What kind of activity is there in the master while the backup is taken?

- Heikki


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