Re: unable to fail over to warm standby server

From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Mason Hale <mason(at)onespot(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Subject: Re: unable to fail over to warm standby server
Date: 2010-02-05 11:11:19
Message-ID: 4B6BFCD7.1000709@enterprisedb.com
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Mason Hale wrote:
> Given that this situation did NOT actually cause corruption, rather the
> error message was mangled such that it suggested corruption, I offer this
> revised suggestion for update to the documentation:
>
> Important note: It is critical the trigger file be created with permissions
>> allowing the postgres process to remove the file. Generally this is best
>> done by creating the file from the postgres user account. Failure to do so
>> will prevent completion of WAL file recovery and the server from coming back
>> online successfully.

Ok, I've added this note to the 8.3 docs now.

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Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

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