On 17 August 2017 at 10:51, Ian Barwick <ian.barwick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 08/16/2017 02:41 PM, Alex Samad wrote:
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> okay think I have it setup, but when i do a switch over it gets stuck here.
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> NOTICE: STANDBY PROMOTE successful
> NOTICE: Executing pg_rewind on old master server
> NOTICE: 3 files copied to /var/lib/pgsql/9.6/data
> NOTICE: restarting server using '/usr/pgsql-9.6/bin/pg_ctl -w -D /var/lib/pgsql/9.6/data -m fast restart'
> pg_ctl: PID file "/var/lib/pgsql/9.6/data/postmaster.pid" does not exist >From the repmgr README:
> Is server running?
> starting server anyway
> NOTICE: STANDBY FOLLOW successful
>> You must ensure that following a server start using `pg_ctl`, log output
>> is not send to STDERR (the default behaviour). If logging is not configured,
>> we recommend setting `logging_collector=on` in `postgresql.conf` and
>> providing an explicit `-l/--log` setting in `repmgr.conf`'s `pg_ctl_options`
>> parameter.
i.e. when the old primary is restarted with:
/usr/pgsql-9.6/bin/pg_ctl -w -D /var/lib/pgsql/9.6/data -m fast restart
the calling process hangs, waiting for logging output from pg_ctl.
In "repmgr.conf" set "pg_ctl_options" to something like:
pg_ctl_options='-l /path/to/log'
Regards
Thanks, simple when you know, too many new things to look at
Ian Barwick
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