Re: During promotion, new master tries to archive same segment twice

Adrian Klaver wrote:
> On 08/16/2018 01:48 AM, Phil Endecott wrote:
>> Adrian Klaver wrote:
>>> On 08/15/2018 01:25 PM, Phil Endecott wrote:
>>>> Dear Experts,
>>>>
>
>>> The above is not clear to me. My best guess:
>>>
>
>> It's not part of the error for the archive command; it's just the
>> next thing in the log file.  Y is (1) trying write WAL segment
>> E8 to the Y-to-Z archive and failing because it is already there and
>> (2) trying to read WAL segment E9 from the X-to-Y archive and failing
>> because it doesn't exist (and never will).  (1) is the problem, (2) is
>> expected.
>
> Hmm, still not sure why they are both showing up in the same LOG: entry
> as the entry was for the failure of the archive_command.

It's not. It's just the next thing in the log file. It seems that
stderr output from scp appears raw in the log file.

> What is archive_mode set to on Y?

archive_mode = always

Regards, Phil.