Re: archive_command fails but works outside of Postgres

On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 12:40 PM, twoflower <standa(dot)kurik(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> I changed my archive_command to the following:
>
> archive_command = 'gsutil cp /storage/postgresql/9.6/main/%p
> gs://my_bucket/pg_xlog/'
>
> and it fails, leaving the following in the log:
>
> 2017-08-18 18:34:25.057 GMT [1436][0]: [104319] LOG: archive command failed
> with exit code 1
> 2017-08-18 18:34:25.057 GMT [1436][0]: [104320] DETAIL: The failed archive
> command was: gsutil cp
> /storage/postgresql/9.6/main/000000010000038B000000D8
> gs://my_bucket/pg_xlog/
> 2017-08-18 18:34:25.057 GMT [1436][0]: [104321] WARNING: archiving
> transaction log file "000000010000038B000000D8" failed too many times, will
> try again later
>
>
> But the command works when executed manually:
>
> root$ su postgres -c "gsutil cp
> /storage/postgresql/9.6/main/000000010000038B000000D8
> gs://my_bucket/pg_xlog/"
> root$ echo $?
> 0
>
> The last command verifies that gsutil indeed exited with 0.
>
> How to best debug this issue?

Sounds like it depends on some envvar it doesn't see when run from the
postmaster. If you sudo -u postgres and run it does it work?