Well, if you don't delete the recovery.conf and you *do* delete
pg_standby's stop file (or it gets deleted, for example if you set it
to go under /tmp and the server is restarted for whatever reason) the
server will attempt to go back into recovery mode using your
configured recovery command in the recovery.conf. I'm not sure
exactly what would happen if the stop file is still there but I would
expect pg_standby to kick in due to the recovery.conf, see the stop
file, and let the server finish starting up. However, I haven't
really tested that before and I certainly wouldn't call it "clean".
The best option would probably be to write a small script to drop the
stop file, wait until it can get a valid connection to the db, the rm
the stop file and mv the recovery.conf to something like
recovery.conf.inactive or something along those lines.
On Apr 14, 2009, at 5:23 PM, Dan Hayes wrote:
Excellent! Thanks. One other quick question... What would happen
if I didn't delete the recovery.conf file? Is that step just to
prevent accidentally restarting the server with it there?
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Erik Jones <ejones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Apr 14, 2009, at 3:47 PM, Dan Hayes wrote:
I've followed the implementation instructions at 24.4.2:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/warm-standby.html
And I've used the archive/restore commands from the example in F23.2:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/pgstandby.html
This all works great. The primary backs up the WAL archives to a
mutually accessible folder and the backup system is continuously
reading in the logs. Monitoring the "standby.log" file shows that
the system is working as it should.
My question is, if the main system goes down, what do I do to the
backup machine to make it come alive? Currently, when I attempt to
login to the database, I get the error: "psql: FATAL: the database
is starting up" I'm assuming this means it can't be accessed while
its in continuous recovery mode. I attempted to turn off postgresql
on the main server and try connecting again, same error (was
obvious, but I do things one step at a time...) So then I removed
the "recovery.conf" file on the backup server and attempted to
restart postgresql. It stopped fine, but the restart failed.
The pg_log/postgresql-XXXX-XX-XX.log file says:
LOG: database system was interrupted while in recovery at log time
2009-04-14 17:36:14 CDT
HINT: If this has occurred more than once some data might be
corrupted and you might need to choose an earlier recovery target.
LOG: could not open file "pg_xlog/0000000100000002000000DD" (log
file 2, segment 221): No such file or directory
LOG: invalid primary checkpoint record
LOG: could not open file "pg_xlog/0000000100000002000000DC" (log
file 2, segment 220): No such file or directory
LOG: invalid secondary checkpoint record
PANIC: could not locate a valid checkpoint record
LOG: startup process (PID 3756) was terminated by signal 6: Aborted
LOG: aborting startup due to startup process failure
Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? How do I bring the standby server
out of standby do act as the primary?
You should use pg_standby's -t flag to specify a stop file. Then
all you need to do is touch (create) that file and pg_standby will
let the server come out of recovery mode into normal operation
mode. Be sure to rm or mv the recovery.conf once that is complete.
Erik Jones, Database Administrator
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Erik Jones, Database Administrator
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Support, Scalability, Reliability
866.518.9273 x 260
Location: US/Pacific
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