Re: Why would Postgres 11 suddenly ignore the recovery.conf file?

That happened with Postgres 12 I think so it shouldn't affect this
installation.

On 10/4/21 12:40, Josef Šimánek wrote:
> Isn't this related to merge into postgresql.conf
> (https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/recovery-config.html)?
>
> po 4. 10. 2021 v 12:35 odesílatel Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
> <dennisml(at)conversis(dot)de> napsal:
>>
>> Hi,
>> I just stopped and restarted a Postgres 11 docker container which so far
>> has happily streamed the WAL from its primary but after the restart it
>> now seems to completely ignore the recovery.conf file and just outputs this:
>>
>> 2021-10-04 10:14:19.103 UTC [1] LOG: listening on IPv4 address
>> "0.0.0.0", port 5432
>> 2021-10-04 10:14:19.103 UTC [1] LOG: listening on IPv6 address "::",
>> port 5432
>> 2021-10-04 10:14:19.123 UTC [1] LOG: listening on Unix socket
>> "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432"
>> 2021-10-04 10:14:19.304 UTC [21] LOG: database system was shut down in
>> recovery at 2021-10-04 10:14:11 UTC
>> 2021-10-04 10:14:19.305 UTC [21] LOG: entering standby mode
>> 2021-10-04 10:14:19.313 UTC [21] LOG: could not signal for checkpoint:
>> checkpointer is not running
>> 2021-10-04 10:14:19.338 UTC [21] LOG: redo starts at 2F01/B9044C30
>> 2021-10-04 10:15:35.889 UTC [21] LOG: consistent recovery state reached
>> at 2F02/A2E1A108
>> 2021-10-04 10:15:35.893 UTC [1] LOG: database system is ready to accept
>> read only connections
>>
>> Notice that there is apparently no attempt being made to connect to the
>> primary any more. The recovery.conf file is still present and correct so
>> I don't understand why Postgres seems to ignore it completely?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Dennis
>>
>>