More issues: the pg_basebackup -x stream on the cascading replica won't complete until the xlog rotates on the master. (again, this is Tuesday's snapshot).
Servers: .226 == master-master, the writeable master .227 == master-replica, a direct replica of master-master .228 == replica-replica, a cascading replica of master-replica 1. recreated master-master, loaded it with some dummy databases. 2. created master-replica 3. took pg_basebackup -x stream of master-master on master-replica 4. edited recovery.conf and started master-replica. started normally. 5. created a table on master-master. change replicated to master-replica. 6. created replica-replica. started a pg_basebackup -x stream from master-replica 7. pg_basebackup hung forever. output of -v: xlog start point: 0/A000020 pg_basebackup: starting background WAL receiver xlog end point: 0/A01C188 pg_basebackup: waiting for background process to finish streaming... 8. tried creating a table on master-master to create a write. this had no effect (although the table did replicate to master-replica). Here's pg_stat_replication on master-master while the basebackup is hung: 1385 | 16393 | replicator | walreceiver | ###.###.61.227 | | 45396 | 2012- 05-13 19:05:11.972471+00 | streaming | 0/A024F50 | 0/A024F50 | 0/A024F50 | 0/A024F50 | 0 | async Here's pg_stat_replication on master-replica while basebackup is hung: 1243 | 16393 | replicator | pg_basebackup | ###.###.61.228 | | 49218 | 2012- 05-13 19:06:07.606378+00 | startup | 0/0 | | | | 0 | async 1244 | 16393 | replicator | pg_basebackup | ###.###.61.228 | | 49219 | 2012- 05-13 19:06:07.611996+00 | streaming | 0/A024F50 | | | | 0 | async 9. Ran pg_xlog_switch() on the master. 10. basebackup completed on replica-replica. 11. edited recovery.conf on replica-replica and started it. works fine. 12. created a new table on master-master, changed replicated to replica-replica. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers