On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 10:19 AM, Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 1:27 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: >> >> So we have a db we're trying to rewind and get synced to the master. >> pg_rewind says it doesn't need rewinding, and when we try to bring it >> up, it gets this error: >> >> "contrecord is requested by 2E7/40000028" >> >> And fails to get back up. >> >> Is this a known issue? Possible bug in the continuation record code? >> >> The only references I can find for it are in the xlogreader code. > > > I've seen this twice lately and both times it was user error. > > One time someone who shall remain nameless made a replica of a remote QA > server using "pg_basebackup -R ...", but then copied the *.conf files > **including recovery.conf** from the running replica of the the remote > production server into the new directory for the replica of the remote QA > server. So primary_conninfo had been overwritten to point to the wrong > master server. > > The other time someone who shall also remain nameless accidentally fully > opened up a newly cloned (from a cold backup, I think) of an dummy > benchmarking server, instead of putting it into standby. And then tried to > shut it down and re-open it as a standby without doing a full refresh. But > of course it was too late to do that. Thanks will check on that. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
