At Thu, 28 Oct 2021 13:52:36 +0000, "Ryan, Les" <Les.Ryan@xxxxxxx> wrote in > Hi Kyotaro and Dilip, > > Thank you for getting back to me. > > Kyotaro: I ran pg_dump and the output was "pg_waldump: fatal: could not read file "00000001000004190000005A": read 50 of 8192". I'm guessing that it means that wal file 00000001000004190000005A is corrupted and that is why the recovery process stops there. Is there any way to fix the file? No way, unless the segment is still living in the primary's pg_wal. Your archive storage is unstable or archive_command is not performing its task reliably enough. > Dilip: setting the log level to debug2 did not provide any additional information. Here are the log entries: > > 2021-10-28 06:51:06.166 MDT [7556] LOG: restored log file "000000010000041900000059" from archive > 2021-10-28 06:51:06.464 MDT [7556] DEBUG: got WAL segment from archive > 2021-10-28 06:51:06.579 MDT [7556] LOG: restored log file "00000001000004190000005A" from archive > 2021-10-28 06:51:06.854 MDT [7556] DEBUG: got WAL segment from archive > 2021-10-28 06:51:07.107 MDT [7556] LOG: consistent recovery state reached at 419/5ABFFFF8 > 2021-10-28 06:51:07.107 MDT [7556] DEBUG: switched WAL source from archive to stream after failure > 2021-10-28 06:51:07.109 MDT [7844] LOG: database system is ready to accept read only connections > 2021-10-28 06:51:07.152 MDT [7844] DEBUG: forked new backend, pid=6900 socket=6068 > > I set the log level to debug5 and here is what I got: > > 2021-10-28 06:25:41.262 MDT [6288] CONTEXT: WAL redo at 419/5ABFFF60 for Btree/INSERT_LEAF: off 130 > 2021-10-28 06:25:41.262 MDT [6288] DEBUG: record known xact 33776257 latestObservedXid 33776257 > 2021-10-28 06:25:41.262 MDT [6288] CONTEXT: WAL redo at 419/5ABFFFA0 for Heap/INSERT: off 95 flags 0x00 > 2021-10-28 06:25:41.262 MDT [6288] LOG: consistent recovery state reached at 419/5ABFFFF8 > 2021-10-28 06:25:41.263 MDT [6288] DEBUG: switched WAL source from archive to stream after failure > 2021-10-28 06:25:41.264 MDT [5512] LOG: database system is ready to accept read only connections > > Does the "switched WAL source from archive to stream after failure" indicate a problem with the WAL file? Actually the message says that some trouble happend while reading file but that happens always at the end of wal. We might need a bit more detailed message about the trouble in higher debug level messages. > Anyway, it looks like I need to restore the standby server from a new backup. Thank you both for your help. Unfortunately I think so, too. > Sincerely, > -Les -- Kyotaro Horiguchi NTT Open Source Software Center