Re: Slave claims requested WAL segment already removed - but it wasn't

Thanks! This seems to be exactly what the issue was.

On Fri, Jun 3, 2016, at 03:36 AM, Nick Cleaton wrote:
> On 2 June 2016 at 02:43, Jeff Beck <becked(at)fastmail(dot)fm> wrote:
> > Hi-
> > We have a master (pg 9.4.4 on Ubuntu 14.10) and a slave (pg 9.4.8 on
> > Centos 7). During a period of heavy use, the slave began complaining
> > that the “requested WAL segment xxxxxx has already been removed”. But
> > the WAL segment was still on the master. The issue was resolved by
> > manually copying the pg_xlog directory over to the slave.
> >
> > I don’t see any errors on the master log file, or any other messages on
> > the slave’s. What happened? How can this be prevented in the future?
>
> I've seen this once. In my case there was a downstream slave of the
> slave that I'd forgotten about, and the log entries on the slave were
> the result of slave-of-slave asking slave for a WAL file that was not
> present on slave.
>
>
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