On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 08:54 -0400, Adam Tistler wrote: > I am trying to set up master/slave warm standby streaming replication > (9.1). I am not doing archiving/log shipping. I have read that you > cannot reverse roles between the master and slave, and that once a > slave is "promoted", you need to use pg_basebackup or rsync to copy > files from the newly promoted master to the old master. I am fine > with this, however, in my case all I am trying to do is re-enable the > slave to be in recovery mode. I am doing this by deleting the trigger > file ( which I had originally created to promote the slave to master ) > and moving recovery.done to recovery.conf, then restarting postgres. > As a result I get the following error: > > FATAL: timeline 2 of the primary does not match recovery target > timeline 3 Once it's promoted to a primary, you can't set it to start recovering from another system again (without taking a new base backup). Did I understand your question correctly? Regards, Jeff Davis -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
