On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 8:29 PM, Selva manickaraja <mavle...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Dear All, > > We have a primary running continous archiving to a secondary. We managed to > test fail-over to the secondary by stopping the database in the primary. > Then some transactions were tested in the secondary. It was acting well as a > primary to accept both read and write. > > Now we want to revert this acting primary back to secondary and bring up > the actual primary. We know that the secondary had gone out of synch in > ahead of primary. So we do a PITR in this secondary before the time when the > initial primary was brought down. Now the primary is up and the secondary is > brought up as hot-standby. The secondary complaints that it cannot recover > because its Timeline 2 does not match with the Timeline 1 of the primary. > Once you open the standby for use, it cannot be put back into standby mode. You will need to rebuild the standby server from the primary. --Scott > > How can this be resolved? > > Thank you. > > Regards, > > Selvam >