Re: incremental backup issue

Hello Fabrice,

I'm wondering if you had a chance to reproduce the problem. I'm seeing
something similar, but not exactly, so I'm curious if this may be another
manifestation of the error I get.

Thanks

Nick

On Thu, Feb 19, 2026 at 8:27 AM Fabrice Chapuis <fabrice636861(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> I could try to reproduce the problem. I'll keep you in touch
>
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>> Robert Haas
>> EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
>>
>
I use Postgres 17.7 and I have configured incremental backup
>
> wal_summary_keep_time=10d
> show wal_summary_keep_time=on
>
> On the standby, this message is written every 10 seconds by the
> walsummarizer process.
>
> 2026-02-17 11:40:22.548 CET [544677]: [297-1]
> user=,db=,client=,application= ERROR: could not read WAL from timeline 6
> at 698/460000A0: invalid record length at 698/460000A0: expected at least
> 24, got 0
> 2026-02-17 11:40:32.559 CET [544677]: [298-1]
> user=,db=,client=,application= ERROR: could not read WAL from timeline 6
> at 698/460000A0: invalid record length at 698/460000A0: expected at least
> 24, got 0
>
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Nick Ivanov
Solutions Architect
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