Phil Monroe wrote:
> So we had to failover and do a full base backup to get our slave database 
> back online and ran into a
> interesting scenario. After copying the data directory, setting up the 
> recovery.conf, and starting the
> slave database, the database crashes while replaying xlogs. However, trying 
> to start the database
> again, the database is able to replay xlogs farther than it initially got, 
> but ultimately ended up
> failing out again. After starting the DB a third time, PostgreSQL replays 
> even further and catches up
> to the master to start streaming replication. Is this common and or 
> acceptable?

Certainly not acceptable.

Just checking: When you were "copying the data directory",
did you have online backup mode enabled?

Yours,
Laurenz Albe


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