Re: Problems starting slave

On 10/3/23 09:37, Douglas Reed wrote:
> Hi the full pg_basebackup command was;
>
>     pg_basebackup -h 172.110.6.5 -D /var/lib/pgsql/12/data -R -U postgres
> --wal-method=stream

I get consistently successful results in v15 using this set of commands
(where the service options reference the primary server in .pg_service_conf):

psql service=primary -c "select pg_drop_replication_slot(slot_name) from
pg_replication_slots where slot_name = 'pgstandby1';"

/usr/bin/rm -r $PGDATA/*

pg_basebackup --dbname=service=basebackup -D $PGDATA --progress
--checkpoint=fast -v \
        --write-recovery-conf --wal-method=stream --create-slot
--slot=pgstandby1 --compress=server-zstd

pg_ctl start -wt90

zstd compression might not be supported by v12.

--
Born in Arizona, moved to Babylonia.