I believe I have successfully setup streaming replication but I have a couple
of nagging questions.
If I reboot one of the streaming targets, I see that it syncs right back up
with the primary and I see new data appear in the read only copy.
I distribute wal segments to the targets using rsync. One target is in the
same rack as the primary, the other is a couple of states aways. That seems to
be working just fine. What I can't seem to figure out is what they are used
for? The target servers seem to connect to the primary and sync from that, not
from the wal logs. Are they there in case of an extended disconnect?
Also, when my target server comes up it always seems to complain that it can't
find a wal archive. It's always the one that is currently be written on the
primary, that hasn't been archived yet. Is that normal?
For example, I cleared out the log file on the remote target and rebooted it.
This is what it logged at startup:
tnelson@nj-dr1:~$ cat /var/log/postgresql/postgresql-9.1-main.log
2012-12-13 00:14:19 EST LOG: database system was shut down in recovery at
2012-12-13 00:11:51 EST
2012-12-13 00:14:20 EST LOG: entering standby mode
cp: cannot stat `/var/lib/postgresql/wal_archive/000000010000000100000098': No
such file or directory
2012-12-13 00:14:20 EST LOG: redo starts at 1/98524320
2012-12-13 00:14:20 EST LOG: consistent recovery state reached at 1/9870DA38
2012-12-13 00:14:20 EST LOG: invalid magic number 0000 in log file 1, segment
152, offset 7397376
2012-12-13 00:14:20 EST LOG: database system is ready to accept read only
connections
cp: cannot stat `/var/lib/postgresql/wal_archive/000000010000000100000098': No
such file or directory
2012-12-13 00:14:22 EST FATAL: could not connect to the primary server: could
not connect to server: No route to host
Is the server running on host "192.168.39.41" and accepting
TCP/IP connections on port 5432?
cp: cannot stat `/var/lib/postgresql/wal_archive/000000010000000100000098': No
such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/var/lib/postgresql/wal_archive/000000010000000100000098': No
such file or directory
2012-12-13 00:14:25 EST LOG: streaming replication successfully connected to
primary
The log file 0098 is currently being written on the primary server. When it
finishes, my archive command will copy it to a local directory on the primary
and the use rsync to distribute it to my 2 target servers.
The TCP connection error I hadn't seen before, but it seems like that was
transient:
On the target..
tnelson@nj-dr1:~$ ps -ef | grep receive
postgres 1158 915 0 00:14 ? 00:00:00 postgres: wal receiver process
streaming 1/98FE4000
On the primary..
root@ihdb1:/var/lib/postgresql# ps -ef | grep send
postgres 9742 9480 0 Dec12 ? 00:00:09 postgres: wal sender process
postgres 192.168.39.42(37235) streaming 1/98FFA560
postgres 11126 9480 0 00:14 ? 00:00:01 postgres: wal sender process
postgres 192.168.6.5(50685) streaming 1/98FFA560
The id's don't match now because the web app is running it's nightly jobs which
will keep the database busy for a few hours, but everything certainly seems to
be working fine.
Has anyone implemented a nagios monitor for these processes?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Tony Nelson
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