On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 12:18 PM, Jov <am...@amutu.com> wrote: > Today I reinstall a pg extension,then restart the primary and slave. the > primary is OK and I can login,and the pg_stat_replication view show the > slave is connected. > but when I try to login the slave,it shows: > FATAL:the database system is starting up > > I wait several minutes,but it still show the same error. and the primary > is no activities,the xlog dir in slave have only 2 WAL files,WAL receiver > is there and seams do nothing.I try to restart the slave several times,but > nothing help.I even try to use pg_xlogdump to analyze the 2 WAL files,but > find nothing abnormal. > > But,when I login to the primary,run: > create table xx as select * from big_table. > > It produce many WAL,and then the slave became normal and I can login. > > it is instresting.I always think that when the pg_stat_replication show > the slave there,it means the slave is OK and can be send read stmt.We have > some monitor use this and some udf get the alived slave for client read.Now > I find I'm wrong. > > Any comment? > > Hot_standby parameter should be turned on at slave postresql.conf, is that checked ?
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