Re: Logical replication type- WAL recovery fails and changes the size of wal segment in archivedir

From: Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
Cc: Meera Nair <mnair(at)commvault(dot)com>, "pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Punit Pranesh Koujalgi <pkoujalgi(at)commvault(dot)com>, B Ganesh Kishan <bkishan(at)commvault(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Logical replication type- WAL recovery fails and changes the size of wal segment in archivedir
Date: 2024-06-06 16:25:38
Message-ID: CANzqJaBEGsHxMn4xE2n37pBDvRwMDRFVrvJSJaJmXCYDKW0FXw@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Jun 5, 2024 at 6:26 AM Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
wrote:

> On Wed, 2024-06-05 at 06:36 +0000, Meera Nair wrote:
> > 2024-06-05 11:41:32.369 IST [54369] LOG: restored log file
> "00000005000000010000006A" from archive
> > 2024-06-05 11:41:33.112 IST [54369] LOG: restored log file
> "00000005000000010000006B" from archive
> > cp: cannot stat ‘/home/pgsql/wmaster/00000005000000010000006C’: No such
> file or directory
> > 2024-06-05 11:41:33.167 IST [54369] LOG: redo done at 1/6B000100
> > 2024-06-05 11:41:33.172 IST [54369] FATAL: archive file
> "00000005000000010000006B" has wrong size: 0 instead of 16777216
> > 2024-06-05 11:41:33.173 IST [54367] LOG: startup process (PID 54369)
> exited with exit code 1
> > 2024-06-05 11:41:33.173 IST [54367] LOG: terminating any other active
> server processes
> > 2024-06-05 11:41:33.174 IST [54375] FATAL: archive command was
> terminated by signal 3: Quit
> > 2024-06-05 11:41:33.174 IST [54375] DETAIL: The failed archive command
> was: cp pg_wal/00000005000000010000006B
> /home/pgsql/wmaster/00000005000000010000006B
> > 2024-06-05 11:41:33.175 IST [54367] LOG: archiver process (PID 54375)
> exited with exit code 1
> > 2024-06-05 11:41:33.177 IST [54367] LOG: database system is shut down
> >
> > Here ‘/home/pgsql/wmaster’ is my archivedir (the folder where WAL
> segments are restored from)
> >
> > Before attempting start, size of
> > 00000005000000010000006B file was 16 MB.
> > After failing to detect 00000005000000010000006C, there is a FATAL error
> saying wrong size for 00000005000000010000006B
> > Now the size of 00000005000000010000006B is observed as 2 MB. Size of
> all other WAL segments remain 16 MB.
> >
> > -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 2359296 Jun 5 11:34
> 00000005000000010000006B
>
> That looks like you have "archive_mode = always", and "archive_command"
> writes
> back to the archive. Don't do that.
>

In fact, don't write your own PITR backup process. Use something like
PgBackRest or BarMan.

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