RE: Unable to archive logs in standby server

Hi Kyotaro,

This helped, thanks.

Regards,
Meera

-----Original Message-----
From: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com>
Sent: Monday, September 5, 2022 7:31 AM
To: Meera Nair <mnair(at)commvault(dot)com>
Cc: guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info; pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org; Punit Pranesh Koujalgi <pkoujalgi(at)commvault(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Unable to archive logs in standby server

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At Tue, 30 Aug 2022 05:22:56 +0000, Meera Nair <mnair(at)commvault(dot)com> wrote in
> Hi Guillaume/team,
>
> I set archive_mode = always in master and standby.
> Archival to standby WAL directory completed when
>
> * standby server was restarted
> * pg_stop_backup was executed in master
>
> But archival hangs when pg_stop_backup is executed in standby.
> Could someone help to get this working?

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> In the same connection as before, issue the command:
>
> SELECT * FROM pg_stop_backup(false, true);
>
> This terminates backup mode. On a primary, it also performs an
> automatic switch to the next WAL segment. On a standby, it is not
> possible to automatically switch WAL segments, so you may wish to run
> pg_switch_wal on the primary to perform a manual switch. The reason
> for the switch is to arrange for the last WAL segment file written
> during the backup interval to be ready to archive.

regards.

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Kyotaro Horiguchi
NTT Open Source Software Center