Re: Streaming-only cascading replica won't come up without writes on the master

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From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Streaming-only cascading replica won't come up without writes on the master
Date: 2013-02-01 01:04:26
Message-ID: 510B149A.6030906@agliodbs.com
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Heikki,

I thought this was only a 9.3 issue, but it turns out to be
reproduceable on 9.2.2. Basically, I did:

1. master is queicent ... no writes occuring.
2. createded cascading replica (reprep1) from replica (repmaster)
3. reprep1 remains "in recovery mode" until a write occurs on master

I've been able to reproduce this several times on my laptop using
postmasters running on different ports.

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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://pgexperts.com


From: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Streaming-only cascading replica won't come up without writes on the master
Date: 2013-02-01 17:04:45
Message-ID: 510BF5AD.4000903@vmware.com
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On 01.02.2013 02:04, Josh Berkus wrote:
> I thought this was only a 9.3 issue, but it turns out to be
> reproduceable on 9.2.2. Basically, I did:
>
> 1. master is queicent ... no writes occuring.
> 2. createded cascading replica (reprep1) from replica (repmaster)
> 3. reprep1 remains "in recovery mode" until a write occurs on master
>
> I've been able to reproduce this several times on my laptop using
> postmasters running on different ports.

Hmm, that sounds like the issue discussed here:
http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/50C7612E.5060008@vmware.com, and
fixed by this commit:

http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit;h=fb565f8c9616ec8ab1b5176d16f310725e581e6e

Can you check if you still see that behavior with REL9_2_STABLE?

- Heikki


From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Streaming-only cascading replica won't come up without writes on the master
Date: 2013-02-04 11:00:17
Message-ID: 510F94C1.1090503@agliodbs.com
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> Can you check if you still see that behavior with REL9_2_STABLE?

Will do.

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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://pgexperts.com