Hi. I posted this question at the end of October, and didn't get any responses, so I'm gonna try one more time.
I have a problem with a standby server running on Windows 2003 R2, Enterprise x64 edition. I use Postgres 8.3 (installed to C:\Program Files (x86)\ ) Everything was working fine (base backup, archiving, recovery), until I wanted to test failover. I created the trigger file, the restore_command returned a nonzero exit code, but postgres said "could not open file... No such file or directory", and died. I'm not sure if this has anything to do with running a 32 bit postgres on a 64 bit machine, or whether it's a bug. Maybe postgres didn't think that the restore command failed?? As the restore_command, I tried using a compiled perl script, pg_standby, and even the system copy command. They all give the same result. I should mention that whenever I start postgres (in recovery mode) from the service console, I get a message saying that postgres started and then stopped. I figured postgres was in some pending mode, waiting for the recovery to end before it can really start (accepting connections). Should I start it another way (like pg_ctl) when I'm doing recovery? Since this is my first time implementing database replication I really can't tell what went wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Ori ---------- Some dumps. Postgres restores files, but gives an error after I created the trigger file, and the restore_command returned a nonzero error code: 2008-10-29 16:39:23 CET LOG: restored log file "0000000100000011000000CF" from archive 2008-10-29 16:42:25 CET LOG: restored log file "0000000100000011000000D0" from archive 2008-10-29 16:45:56 CET LOG: restored log file "0000000100000011000000D1" from archive 2008-10-29 16:49:02 CET LOG: restored log file "0000000100000011000000D2" from archive 2008-10-29 16:58:45 CET LOG: could not open file "pg_xlog/0000000100000011000000D3" (log file 17, segment 211): No such file or directory Now postgres seemed to be stuck, or dead. Using Process Explorer I saw that one of the postgres.exe processes was running drwtsn32.exe (Dr Watson Postmortem debugger) indefinitely. When I kill drwtsn32, postgres dies too, resulting in the following lines in the log (nothing had been logged between 16:58:45 and 17:20:27) 2008-10-29 17:20:27 CET LOG: startup process (PID 2952) was terminated by exception 0xC000000D 2008-10-29 17:20:27 CET HINT: See C include file "ntstatus.h" for a description of the hexadecimal value. 2008-10-29 17:20:27 CET LOG: aborting startup due to startup process failure When I looked at the Event Log, I saw an Application Error: Event Type: Error Event Source: Application Error Event Category: (100) Event ID: 1000 Date: 29-10-2008 Time: 16:58:47 User: N/A Computer: S1217 Description: Faulting application postgres.exe, version 8.3.1.876, faulting module msvcr80.dll, version 8.0.50727.762, fault address 0x0001e879. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. Data: 0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74 Applicat 0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c ion Fail 0010: 75 72 65 20 20 70 6f 73 ure pos 0018: 74 67 72 65 73 2e 65 78 tgres.ex 0020: 65 20 38 2e 33 2e 31 2e e 8.3.1. 0028: 38 37 36 20 69 6e 20 6d 876 in m 0030: 73 76 63 72 38 30 2e 64 svcr80.d 0038: 6c 6c 20 38 2e 30 2e 35 ll 8.0.5 0040: 30 37 32 37 2e 37 36 32 0727.762 0048: 20 61 74 20 6f 66 66 73 at offs 0050: 65 74 20 30 30 30 31 65 et 0001e 0058: 38 37 39 879
