[FWIW: proper quoting makes answering easier and thus more likely] On 2014-08-29 15:37:51 -0700, Patrick Krecker wrote: > I ran the following on the local endpoint of spiped: > > while [ true ]; do psql -h localhost -p 5445 judicata -U marbury -c "select > modtime, pg_last_xlog_receive_location(), pg_last_xlog_replay_location() > from replication_time"; done; > > And the same command on production and I was able to verify that the xlogs > for a given point in time were the same (modtime is updated every second by > an upstart job): > > spiped from office -> production: > modtime | pg_last_xlog_receive_location | > pg_last_xlog_replay_location > ----------------------------+-------------------------------+------------------------------ > 2014-08-29 15:23:25.563766 | 177/2E80C9F8 | 177/2E80C9F8 > > Ran directly on production replica: > modtime | pg_last_xlog_receive_location | > pg_last_xlog_replay_location > ----------------------------+-------------------------------+------------------------------ > 2014-08-29 15:23:25.563766 | 177/2E80C9F8 | 177/2E80C9F8 > > To me, this is sufficient proof that spiped is indeed talking to the > machine I think it's talking to (also lsof reports the correct hostname). > > I created another basebackup from the currently stuck postgres intance on > another machine and I also get this error: > > 2014-08-29 15:27:30 PDT FATAL: could not receive data from WAL stream: > ERROR: requested starting point 177/2D000000 is ahead of the WAL flush > position of this server 174/B76D16A8 Uh. this indicates that the machine you're talking to is *not* one of the above as it has a flush position of '174/B76D16A8' - not something that's really possible when the node actually is at '177/2E80C9F8'. Could you run, on the standby that's having problems, the following command: psql 'host=127.0.0.1 port=5445 user=XXX password=XXX' -c 'IDENTIFY_SYSTEM;' 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