Re: repmgr problem with registering standby

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Toby Corkindale
<toby(dot)corkindale(at)strategicdata(dot)com(dot)au> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have repmgr working to some degree on a couple of servers, but am having
> trouble with the "register" part on the slave.
>
> On the master, I run:
> # repmgr -f /etc/repmgr/validator/repmgr.conf \
>  --verbose --force master register
>
> Opening configuration file: /etc/repmgr/validator/repmgr.conf
> repmgr connecting to master database
> repmgr connected to master, checking its state
> finding node list for cluster 'validator'
> Master node correctly registered for cluster validator with id 0 (conninfo:
> host=10.133.54.2 port=5432 user=repmgr dbname=repmgr)
>
>
> So that looks good, but then I try this on the slave:
> # repmgr -f /etc/repmgr/validator/repmgr.conf \
>  --verbose standby register
>
> Opening configuration file: /etc/repmgr/validator/repmgr.conf
> repmgr connecting to standby database
> repmgr connected to standby, checking its state
> repmgr connecting to master database
> finding node list for cluster 'validator'
> A master must be defined before configuring a slave
>
>
>
> I can query the database like so though, and it seems like it's all good:
> repmgr=# select * from repmgr_validator.repl_nodes;
>  id |  cluster  |                       conninfo
> ----+-----------+------------------------------------------------------
>  0 | validator | host=10.133.54.2 port=5432 user=repmgr dbname=repmgr
> (1 row)
>
>
> Does anyone have an idea of what might be going wrong here?

Hi, thanks for using repmgr.

What version of repmgr are you using? What version of PostgreSQL?

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