Re: contrecord is requested

On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 10:19 AM, Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 1:27 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
>>
>> So we have a db we're trying to rewind and get synced to the master.
>> pg_rewind says it doesn't need rewinding, and when we try to bring it
>> up, it gets this error:
>>
>> "contrecord is requested by 2E7/40000028"
>>
>> And fails to get back up.
>>
>> Is this a known issue? Possible bug in the continuation record code?
>>
>> The only references I can find for it are in the xlogreader code.
>
>
> I've seen this twice lately and both times it was user error.
>
> One time someone who shall remain nameless made a replica of a remote QA
> server using "pg_basebackup -R ...", but then copied the *.conf files
> **including recovery.conf** from the running replica of the the remote
> production server into the new directory for the replica of the remote QA
> server. So primary_conninfo had been overwritten to point to the wrong
> master server.
>
> The other time someone who shall also remain nameless accidentally fully
> opened up a newly cloned (from a cold backup, I think) of an dummy
> benchmarking server, instead of putting it into standby. And then tried to
> shut it down and re-open it as a standby without doing a full refresh. But
> of course it was too late to do that.

Thanks will check on that.