> Any movement on this? There is considerable interest in any known > issues resolving reproducible issues with postgres replication. Do > you happen to remember if set up the standby when the master was under > high load conditions? Any interesting/unexplained messages in the > standby logs? I'm still trying to digest your last post AND I'm going to do some more testing this weekend. I do typically setup the standby while master is under load -- I will try to set it up under light/no load this weekend and test. Some Logs: head of postgresql...log on slave: ----------------------------------------------- 2011-09-27 02:24:54 MST LOG: could not open file "pg_xlog/000000010000059F000000C7" (log file 1439, segment 199): No such file or directory 2011-09-27 02:24:54 MST LOG: redo done at 59F/C6FFDB08 2011-09-27 02:24:54 MST LOG: last completed transaction was at log time 2011-09-26 23:55:29.746-07 2011-09-27 02:24:59 MST LOG: restored log file "000000010000059F000000C6" from archive 2011-09-27 02:25:29 MST LOG: selected new timeline ID: 2 2011-09-27 02:25:59 MST LOG: archive recovery complete 2011-09-27 02:26:03 MST LOG: database system is ready to accept connections 2011-09-27 02:26:03 MST LOG: autovacuum launcher started tail of STANDBY.LOG on slave after trigger: --------------------------------------------------------------- WAL file not present yet. Checking for trigger file... WAL file not present yet. Checking for trigger file... WAL file not present yet. Checking for trigger file...trigger file found Trigger file : P:\PROGRA~1\PostgreSQL\trigger.txt Waiting for WAL file : 000000010000059F000000C6 WAL file path : P:\PROGRA~1\PostgreSQL\archivewal\000000010000059F000000C6 Restoring to... : pg_xlog\RECOVERYXLOG Sleep interval : 5 seconds Max wait interval : 0 forever Command for restore : copy "P:\PROGRA~1\PostgreSQL\archivewal\000000010000059F000000C6" "pg_xlog\RECOVERYXLOG" Keep archive history : 000000000000000000000000 and later running restore : OK Trigger file : P:\PROGRA~1\PostgreSQL\trigger.txt Waiting for WAL file : 00000002.history WAL file path : P:\PROGRA~1\PostgreSQL\archivewal\00000002.history Restoring to... : pg_xlog\RECOVERYHISTORY Sleep interval : 5 seconds Max wait interval : 0 forever Command for restore : copy "P:\PROGRA~1\PostgreSQL\archivewal\00000002.history" "pg_xlog\RECOVERYHISTORY" Keep archive history : 000000000000000000000000 and later running restore :not restored : history file not found Trigger file : P:\PROGRA~1\PostgreSQL\trigger.txt Waiting for WAL file : 00000001.history WAL file path : P:\PROGRA~1\PostgreSQL\archivewal\00000001.history Restoring to... : pg_xlog\RECOVERYHISTORY Sleep interval : 5 seconds Max wait interval : 0 forever Command for restore : copy "P:\PROGRA~1\PostgreSQL\archivewal\00000001.history" "pg_xlog\RECOVERYHISTORY" Keep archive history : 000000000000000000000000 and later running restore :not restored : history file not found Tail of postgresql...log on master before/during shutdown for backups: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2011-10-04 01:17:02 MST LOG: unexpected EOF on client connection 2011-10-04 01:17:11 MST LOG: received fast shutdown request 2011-10-04 01:17:11 MST LOG: aborting any active transactions 2011-10-04 01:17:11 MST FATAL: terminating connection due to administrator command 2011-10-04 01:17:11 MST FATAL: terminating connection due to administrator command 2011-10-04 01:17:12 MST FATAL: terminating connection due to administrator command 2011-10-04 01:17:12 MST FATAL: terminating connection due to administrator command 2011-10-04 01:17:12 MST FATAL: terminating connection due to administrator command 2011-10-04 01:17:12 MST FATAL: terminating connection due to administrator command 2011-10-04 01:17:12 MST FATAL: terminating connection due to administrator command 2011-10-04 01:17:12 MST LOG: autovacuum launcher shutting down 2011-10-04 01:17:12 MST LOG: shutting down 2011-10-04 01:17:12 MST LOG: database system is shut down Head of postgresql...log on master starting up after stopping/starting master's pg process: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2011-10-04 02:19:37 MST LOG: database system was shut down at 2011-10-04 01:17:12 MST 2011-10-04 02:19:37 MST LOG: database system is ready to accept connections 2011-10-04 02:19:37 MST LOG: autovacuum launcher started 2011-10-04 02:19:37 MST LOG: loaded library "$libdir/plugins/plugin_debugger.dll" <end of post> -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general