Re: pg_basebackup and pg_switch_wal()

Thanks Israel for these informations. In fact, I thought at first of a
problem related to the version of pg_basebackup in version 17. I should
have posted first on the barman github.

Best regards,

Fabrice

On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 12:47 AM Israel Barth Rubio <barthisrael(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> Hello Fabrice,
>
> > But I do not understand this error with the barman wrapper:
> >
> > Backup completed (start time: 2025-07-26 21:45:07.238223, elapsed time:
> 19 seconds)
> > Waiting for the WAL file 0000000300000B3F0000000C from server
> 'x_service' (max: 600 seconds)
> > Processing xlog segments from streaming for x_service
> > 0000000300000B3F0000000A
> > Processing xlog segments from streaming for x_service
> > 0000000300000B3F0000000B
> > ERROR: The WAL file 0000000300000B3F0000000C has not been received in
> 600 seconds
>
> Are you by chance running PostgreSQL 17?
>
> If you are using PostgreSQL 17, you are very likely encountering the issue
> tracked here: https://github.com/EnterpriseDB/barman/issues/1041. In that
> case,
> a fix has already been merged and will be included in an upcoming release
> of
> Barman.
>
> As a quick note for the future, the Barman GitHub issues page is the
> correct place
> to report problems like this directly to the development team. In any
> case, I understand
> that you raised it here given the context of the original question about
> pg_basebackup.
>
> Hope that helps you.
>
> Best regards,
> Israel.
>