Re: wal_level not changing

you should have postgres archiving enabled , can you edit /data/9.6/data/postgresql.conf making sure that :
archive_mode = off
and
max_wal_senders = 0

otherwise you will be getting errors like :

FATAL: WAL archival cannot be enabled when wal_level is "minimal"
and
FATAL: WAL streaming (max_wal_senders > 0) requires wal_level "replica" or "logical"

Regards,
Vasilis Ventirozos

> On 4 Sep 2017, at 19:08, Sumeet Shukla <sumeet(dot)k(dot)shukla(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> I restarted the service using systemctl and now the status shows green but the problem persists.
>
> Thanks & Regards,
> Sumeet Shukla
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 9:28 PM, Sumeet Shukla <sumeet(dot)k(dot)shukla(at)gmail(dot)com <mailto:sumeet(dot)k(dot)shukla(at)gmail(dot)com>> wrote:
> Tried but does not work.
>
> I see below output when I check the status of the service.
> systemctl status postgresql-9.6
>
> ● postgresql-9.6.service - PostgreSQL 9.6 database server
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> Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/postgresql-9.6.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
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> Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2017-09-04 11:25:42 EDT; 27min ago
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> Process: 28093 ExecStop=/opt/postgresql/9.6/bin/pg_ctl stop -m fast -w -D /data/9.6/data (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
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> Process: 28052 ExecStart=/opt/postgresql/9.6/bin/pg_ctl start -w -t ${TimeoutSec} -D /data/9.6/data -l /data/9.6/data/pg_log/startup.log (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
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> Main PID: 28054 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
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>
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> Sep 04 11:25:36 ashprmlpdb-p05 systemd[1]: Starting PostgreSQL 9.6 database server...
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> Sep 04 11:25:36 ashprmlpdb-p05 systemd[1]: Started PostgreSQL 9.6 database server.
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> Sep 04 11:25:42 ashprmlpdb-p05 systemd[1]: postgresql-9.6.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
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> Sep 04 11:25:42 ashprmlpdb-p05 systemd[1]: Unit postgresql-9.6.service entered failed state.
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> Sep 04 11:25:42 ashprmlpdb-p05 systemd[1]: postgresql-9.6.service failed.
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>
>
> Thanks & Regards,
> Sumeet Shukla
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 9:20 PM, Vasilis Ventirozos <v(dot)ventirozos(at)gmail(dot)com <mailto:v(dot)ventirozos(at)gmail(dot)com>> wrote:
> try ALTER SYSTEM set wal_level = 'minimal';
> and then restart , just make sure that archiving is disabled first.
>
> Vasilis Ventirozos
>
>
>> On 4 Sep 2017, at 18:42, Sumeet Shukla <sumeet(dot)k(dot)shukla(at)gmail(dot)com <mailto:sumeet(dot)k(dot)shukla(at)gmail(dot)com>> wrote:
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>>
>> Hi,
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>> update pg_settings set reset_val='minimal' where name='wal_level';
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>> ERROR: parameter "wal_level" cannot be changed without restarting the server
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>>
>> set wal_level='minimal';
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>> ERROR: parameter "wal_level" cannot be changed without restarting the server
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>> update pg_settings set setting='minimal' where name='wal_level';
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>> ERROR: parameter "wal_level" cannot be changed without restarting the server
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>> Even after restarting and reloading the server multiple times the setting does not update and remains as below:
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>> show wal_level;
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>> +-----------+
>>
>> | wal_level |
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>> +-----------+
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>> | replica |
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>>
>> +-----------+
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>>
>> Thanks & Regards,
>> Sumeet Shukla
>>
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