Re: Critical failure of standby

From: John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Critical failure of standby
Date: 2016-08-16 02:36:03
Message-ID: 5892028d-612d-335b-6cc1-5ddcf8a2cce0@hogranch.com
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On 8/15/2016 7:23 PM, James Sewell wrote:
> Those are all good questions.
>
> Essentially this is a situation where DR is network separated from
> Prod - so I would expect the archive command to fail. I'll have to
> check the script it must not be passing the error back through to
> PostgreSQL.
>
> This still shouldn't cause database corruption though right? - it's
> just not getting WALs.

if the slave database is asking for the WAL's, it needs them. if it
needs them and can't get them, then it can't catch up and start.

--
john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz

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