> Before restarting it, you need to do pg_basebackup and make a base
> backup
> onto the standby again. Since you started the standby without
> recovery.conf,
> a series of WAL in the standby has gotten inconsistent with that in
> the master.
> So you need a fresh backup to restart the standby.
You're not understanding the bug. The problem is that the standby came up and reported that it was replicating OK, when clearly it wasn't.
--Josh