On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 11:15 PM, Seong Son (US) <seong....@datapath.com> wrote: > So my questions are, could an old WAL segment being resent through the > network cause crash like this? Shouldn’t Postgresql be able to handle out > of order WAL segments instead of just crashing?
When the streaming connection between a standby and a primary is cut, the WAL receiver would restart and try to stream from the beginning of the last segment it was in the middle of. See RequestXLogStreaming in walreceiverfuncs.c. > And what would be the best way to recover the standby server? Resynching > the entire database seems to be too time consuming. You may want to check the validity of the so-said WAL segment as well. Corrupted data could come from it. -- Michael -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
