On 2019-Apr-10, Vikas Bodani wrote: > > Maybe you have some HA tool that starts up another server, and delete > > this one's config file in order to prevent split-brain. > > Thanks Alvaro. Since this happens during the multi-master bdr setup, could > the other postgres instance within bdr, begin up and running while we > restart this one, delete this one's config? BDR by itself does not do that, to the best of my knowledge. I hope you didn't install the files twice somehow, so that one node's files overwrote the other node's; I would be very surprised if it let you do that anyway. -- Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services