On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Erik Darling <edarling80@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 11:26 AM, CS DBA <cs_dba@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2/2/14, 9:19 AM, Raghavendra wrote:
On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 9:22 PM, CS DBA <cs_dba@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi all;
we have a cluster running with an archive command that is failing.
I tried a reload and the value does not change
Reload with new value won't work until you fix the failing archive_command.Eg:-ps -ef | grep archpostgres 29743 29736 0 Jan30 ? 00:00:00 postgres: archiver process failed on 00000001000000010000003Dand it might cause same error you are experiencing aspostgres=# select set_config('archive_command','cp %p /opt/PostgreSQL/9.3/a93/%f',false);ERROR: parameter "archive_command" cannot be changed nowSo, fix the archive_command first and then give new changes.Tried a set_config and I get this error:
select set_config ('archive_command', 'cp %p /data/wal_tmp/%f && mv /data/wal_tmp/%f /data/wal/&f', 'false');
ERROR: parameter "archive_command" cannot be changed nowIf your archive_command pointing to "/data/wal_tmp" then please ensure that directory exists there. If that directory not present then archive process fail to copy the transaction logs. When archiver process in failed state you cannot apply any new changes to the archive_command it will fail.Also, am surprised to see "mv" command, basically the archive_command meant to have a copies of pg_xlogs but not any OS related directory movements.
we want to copy the file to /data/wal_tmp, then do a mv to /data/wal so our process that ships a copy to the standby servers never see's a partial file (since it watches /data/wal)
