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Here is my pg_rewind command. Trying to make a former primary follow
the newly-promoted standby... /usr/pgsql-12/bin/pg_rewind -D '/apps/opt/postgres/pg12/data' --source-server='host=mypromotedstandby user=repmgr dbname=repmgr port=5432 password=mypassword connect_timeout=2' Now I don't know if this matters but that log directory is actually a symlink pointing to a location that has log files in both the source and target. Here is the error I get: pg_rewind: servers diverged at WAL location 1/2F0000A0 on timeline 6 pg_rewind: rewinding from last common checkpoint at 1/2F000028 on timeline 6 pg_rewind: fatal: "/apps/opt/postgres/pg12/data/log" is not a directory Here is the reference from the PostgreSQL source code where it is noted as "strange" https://github.com/postgres/postgres/blob/master/src/bin/pg_rewind/filemap.c process_source_file(const char *path, file_type_t type, size_t newsize, const char *link_target) { ... ... ... switch (type) { case FILE_TYPE_DIRECTORY: if (exists && !S_ISDIR(statbuf.st_mode) && strcmp(path, "pg_wal") != 0) { /* it's a directory in source, but not in target. Strange.. */ pg_fatal("\"%s\" is not a directory", localpath); } if (!exists) action = ""> else action = ""> oldsize = 0; break; case FILE_TYPE_SYMLINK: if (exists && Regards, Michael Vitale |
