The Lazy Sys Admin» pg_standby http://www.thelazysysadmin.net Why do things the hard way? Mon, 07 Jun 2010 22:24:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 pg_standby triggering unexpectedly http://www.thelazysysadmin.net/2009/08/pg_standby-triggering-unexpectedly/ http://www.thelazysysadmin.net/2009/08/pg_standby-triggering-unexpectedly/#comments Fri, 21 Aug 2009 05:57:10 +0000 Jon Smith http://www.thelazysysadmin.net/?p=629 I have been having a problem with my redundant PostgreSQL setup over the last couple of weeks. I run two Postgres servers with a WAL Logging Warm Standby system using pg_standby from 8.3. When the master server is under heavy load and generating a lot of WAL traffic the secondary server has been tripping and going active.

After checking all the logs and putting pg_standby in debug mode there was still no clue as to why this was happening.

The archive_command on my master server was using

cp -i "%p" /var/lib/pgsql/slave/pg_logrestore/"%f"

I have read somewhere (I can’t remember where or when) that when you use cp to copy the WAL log the file appears in the destination without it being a complete copy so this got me to wondering if this was causing my problem. Knowing that RSync will use a temp file when copying and then rename the file once completed I thought I would give that a go.

My new archive_command is

rsync -q "%p" /var/lib/pgsql/slave/pg_logrestore/"%f"

Since making this change the standby server hasn’t triggered without reason and the problem appears to be fixed.

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