Hi Phil, On 8/15/18 4:25 PM, Phil Endecott wrote: > > Questions: > > - Can all of this be blamed on the failure of the first attempt > to promote due to the wrong permissions on recovery.conf? Yes, it looks that way. > - Should my archive_command detect the case where it is asked to > write the same file again with the same contents, and report > success in that case? Yes. pgBackRest has done this for years and it saves a *lot* of headaches. > - Is this a bug? I don't think so. There are a number of cases where the same WAL segment can be pushed more than once, especially after failures where Postgres is not sure that the command completed. The archive command should handle this gracefully. Regards, -- -David david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
