Re: BUG #13962: transaction logs growing on standby

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 5:42 AM, Nick Bales <nick(dot)bales(at)rackspace(dot)com>
wrote:
>
> I am not seeing any instances of where the standby nodes are falling
> behind the primary. However, I do see several instances each day where the
> standby is having to re-establish the streaming connection to the primary:
>
> 2015-12-15 07:25:10 GMT 12969 XX000 566f9ae1.32a9 0 FATAL: could not
> send data to WAL stream: server closed the connection unexpectedly
> 2015-12-15 07:25:10 GMT 33302 00000 566fc056.8216 0 LOG: started
> streaming WAL from primary at 374/F1000000 on timeline 1
> 2015-12-15 10:05:13 GMT 33302 XX000 566fc056.8216 0 FATAL: could not
> send data to WAL stream: server closed the connection unexpectedly
> 2015-12-15 10:05:13 GMT 5001 00000 566fe5d9.1389 0 LOG: started
> streaming WAL from primary at 375/11000000 on timeline 1
>
> Upon closer inspection, the number of times this is occurring per day does
> correspond to the number of orphaned xlogs for the day(by file's last
> updated timestamp), so there does seem to be some relevance. Will need to
> investigate further as to what is causing the streaming connection to drop.
>

Thats the issue, there is an interruption in streaming probably due to
network related issues. That needs to be fixed first.
So, this is not a BUG. Please note that this is not an appropriate mailing
list to send these technical queries. Please consider sending across such
technical queries to pgsql-general mailing list.

Regards,
Venkata B N

Fujitsu Australia