Re: psql: FATAL: the database system is starting up

On Sat, Jun 1, 2019 at 4:11 PM Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
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> On 6/1/19 12:32 PM, Tom K wrote:
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> > What if you move the recovery.conf file out?
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> > Will try.
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> > The below looks like missing/corrupted/incorrect files. Hard to tell
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> > Storage disappeared from underneath these clusters. The OS was of
> > course still in memory making futile attempts to write to disk, which
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> > My best guess is that Patroni or postgress was in the middle of some
> > writes across the clusters when the failure occurred.
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> So to be clear all three clusters where writing to the same storage
> medium and there was no WAL archiving to some other storage?

Yep, cheap LAB hardware with no power redundancy ( yet ) .

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> Adrian Klaver
> adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com
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