On 02/09/2015 08:34 AM, Guillaume Drolet wrote: CCing list so the information stays in the thread.
2015-02-06 18:44 GMT-05:00 Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx>>: On 02/06/2015 09:17 AM, Guillaume Drolet wrote: Dear Adrian, Thanks for helping me. Sorry for the lack of details, I had said to myself I had to not forget to give these details but I hit the send button too fast. You know how it is... I added more info in your reply below. First some questions: 1) What Postgres version? 9.3 Windows 7 3) Where were you backing up from and to? Backing up from my only cluster (PGDATA) on disk E, to a backup directory on an other disk (F:) using this command: pg_basebackup -D "F:\\db_base_backup" -Fp -Xs -R -P --label="basebackup20150205" --username=postgres What's weird is that I did some successful tests last week on the same system (backing up, archiving, recovering) using the same procedure. Only difference was the cluster, which was much smaller for testing purposes, but located at the same place (i.e. E:\data) and PostgresSQL installed in C:\Programs\... 4) Which cluster does not start, the master or the child you created with pg_basebackup? The master. I haven't tried the child yet. But I saw that the message about role "208375PT$" is in logs from before the backup too. This is the local domain of my machine. I log onto my machine with a local admin account and using domain name 208375PT (I didn't set this part of my machine, the IT guys here at work did). The thing is: I don't understand why it's there in the log file?? Not sure. What are you using for an authentication method for database login?
At this moment, for my tests I use md5 for user 'postgres' and trust for user 'all'.
And after that, I went back to the log file and there's new information added: 2015-02-06 07:51:05 EST LOG: processus serveur (PID 184) a été arrêté par l'exception 0x80000004 2015-02-06 07:51:05 EST DÉTAIL: Le processus qui a échoué exécutait : SELECT version(); 2015-02-06 07:51:05 EST ASTUCE : Voir le fichier d'en-tête C « ntstatus.h » pour une description de la valeur hexadécimale. Well according to here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-____us/library/cc704588.aspx <https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-__us/library/cc704588.aspx> <https://msdn.microsoft.com/__en-us/library/cc704588.aspx <https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc704588.aspx>> 0x80000004 STATUS_SINGLE_STEP {EXCEPTION} Single Step A single step or trace operation has just been completed. A developer is going to have explain what that means. My suspicion is you copied at least partly over a running server. How would that be possible? Using the pg_basebackup command I wrote above, it is clear that I wrote the backup on disk F and not E. I was just speculating, I would not put too much stock in it. While writing this post, I started my backup using: pg_ctl start -D "F:\db_basebackup" Similar stuff happened with pgAdmin and the log (message about symbolic link is related to my post from yesterday. I don't know if this could be involved in the current problem): 2015-02-06 12:13:58 EST LOG: le système de bases de données a été interrompu ; dernier lancement connu à 2015-02-05 14:30:34 EST 2015-02-06 12:13:58 EST LOG: création du répertoire manquant « pg_xlog/archive_status » pour les journaux de transactions 2015-02-06 12:13:58 EST LOG: la ré-exécution commence à 24B/28000090 2015-02-06 12:13:58 EST LOG: n'a pas pu supprimer le lien symbolique « pg_tblspc/940585 » : No such file or directory 2015-02-06 12:13:58 EST CONTEXTE : xlog redo drop tablespace: 940585 2015-02-06 12:13:58 EST LOG: état de restauration cohérent atteint à 24B/290000B8 2015-02-06 12:13:58 EST LOG: ré-exécution faite à 24B/290000B8 2015-02-06 12:13:58 EST LOG: la dernière transaction a eu lieu à 2015-02-05 09:06:04.892-05 (moment de la journalisation) 2015-02-06 12:13:59 EST LOG: le système de bases de données est prêt pour accepter les connexions 2015-02-06 12:13:59 EST LOG: lancement du processus autovacuum 2015-02-06 12:14:42 EST LOG: processus serveur (PID 1784) a été arrêté par l'exception 0x80000004 2015-02-06 12:14:42 EST DÉTAIL: Le processus qui a échoué exécutait : SELECT version(); 2015-02-06 12:14:42 EST ASTUCE : Voir le fichier d'en-tête C « ntstatus.h » pour une description de la valeur hexadécimale. 2015-02-06 12:14:42 EST LOG: arrêt des autres processus serveur actifs 2015-02-06 12:14:42 EST ATTENTION: arrêt de la connexion à cause de l'arrêt brutal d'un autre processus serveur 2015-02-06 12:14:42 EST DÉTAIL: Le postmaster a commandé à ce processus serveur d'annuler la transaction courante et de quitter car un autre processus serveur a quitté anormalement et qu'il existe probablement de la mémoire partagée corrompue. 2015-02-06 12:14:42 EST ASTUCE : Dans un moment, vous devriez être capable de vous reconnecter à la base de données et de relancer votre commande. 2015-02-06 12:14:42 EST LOG: tous les processus serveur se sont arrêtés, réinitialisation Any ideas where to go from here? In both cases the database got to the point below, which would seem to indicate everything was alright. 2015-02-06 7:11:38 ET LOG: the re-execution is not required 2015-02-06 7:11:38 ET LOG: the database system is ready for accept connections Also from what I can see the server crashed at this point: 2015-02-06 12:13:59 LOG IS: launch autovacuum processes 2015-02-06 12:14:42 EST LOG: server process (PID 1784) was arrested by the exception 0x80000004 Now 0x80000004 is supposed to mean: STATUS_SINGLE_STEP {EXCEPTION} Single Step A single step or trace operation has just been completed. Some digging indicates this is the result of debugger command. Have no idea how that would invoked in Postgres running production code. This leads to my default question when I see unexplained behavior on a Windows machine; do you have anti-virus machine running against the drives?
Yes I do and I'm not allowed to turn it off (I don't have such privileges). But the anti-virus software is running on my other machine (same setup) and I've never had such problems. Even on this machine that's giving me problems, I spent the two last weeks making tests with point-in-time-recovery and everything went fine.
Thanks a lot again. Thanks a lot for helping! Guillaume -- Adrian Klaver adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx> <mailto:adrian.klaver@aklaver.__com <mailto:adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx>> -- Adrian Klaver adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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