> And I think they also reported that if they didn't run hot standby, > but just normal recovery into a new master, it didn't have the problem > either, i.e. without hotstandby, recovery ran, properly extended the > clog, and then ran as a new master fine.
Yes this is correct...attempting to start as hotstandby will produce the pg_clog error repeatedly and then without changing anything else, just turning hot standby off it will start up successfully. > This fits the OP's observation ob the > problem vanishing when pg_start_backup() does an immediate checkpoint. Note that this is *not* the behaviour I'm seeing....it's possible it happens more frequently without the immediate checkpoint, but I am seeing it happen even with the immediate checkpoint. > This is a different problem and has already been reported by one of > your colleagues in a separate thread, and answered in detail by me > there. There is no bug related to this error message. Excellent...I will continue this discussion in that thread.
