On 2014-08-29 13:04:43 -0700, Patrick Krecker wrote: > Hi Craig -- Sorry for the late response, I've been tied up with some other > things for the last day. Just to give some context, this is a machine that > sits in our office and replicates from another read slave in production via > a tunnel set up with spiped. The spiped tunnel is working and postgres is > still stuck (it has been stuck since 8-25). > > The last moment that replication was working was 2014-08-25 > 22:06:05.03972. We have a table called replication_time with one column and > one row that has a timestamp that is updated every second, so it's easy to > tell the last time this machine was in sync with production. > > recovery.conf: http://pastie.org/private/dfmystgf0wxgtmahiita > logs: http://pastie.org/private/qt1ixycayvdsxafrzj0l0q The problem is this log entry: 2014-08-27 18:44:27 PDT ERROR: requested starting point 175/28000000 is ahead of the WAL flush position of this server 174/B76D16A8 That's the walreceiver connecting to the upstream node and askign for wAL. Somehow the standby has gotten *considerably* ahead of the node it's trying to receive WAL from. Are you sure primary_conninfo / the spiped tunnel connects to the right postgres instance? Did you possibly have a failover or something like that? Greetings, Andres Freund -- Andres Freund http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general