Re: Log archiving failing. Seems to be wrong timeline

Hi Jeff,

Done as you advised and now things are working again.

Many thanks

Chris

On 30/06/16 20:19, Jeff Janes wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 3:53 AM, Chris Lewis <clewis(at)inview(dot)co(dot)uk> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> We have 2 postgresql servers (v 9.4.2) master and slave in streaming
>> replication. The overall cluster is controlled using pacemaker & corosync
>> and the pgsql cluster agent which handles failover to, and promotion of, the
>> slave.
>>
>> Recently a failover occured and I noticed that log archiving was failing on
>> the master:
> ...
>
>> Why are we trying to archive logs which belong to an old timeline?
> Just because the timeline is old doesn't mean we want to destroy it.
> Afterall, the reason for having timelines in the first place is to
> preserve, not to destroy.
>
> It sounds like someone removed the old timeline's log files from
> pg_xlog, but did not remove the corresponding .ready files from
> pg_xlog/archive_status.
>
> If the old timeline's files are truly lost, then you will have to
> carefully remove those corresponding .ready files.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeff

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