Я надеюсь, что кто-нибудь может помочь мне решить проблему с WAL-доставкой и теплым резервом. Моя резервная система успешно работает несколько недель, а потом вдруг начинает искать несуществующие файлы .history. Затем он вылетает, и я не могу успешно перезапустить его без восстановления режима ожидания.
Обе системы работают под управлением CentOS 4.5 и postgres 8.4.1. Они используют NFS для хранения файлов WAL из рабочей среды в резервной.
Соответствующий фрагмент журнала с моими комментариями:
[** Recovery is running normally **]
Trigger file : /tmp/pgsql.trigger
Waiting for WAL file : 00000001000000830000005B
WAL file path : /var/tafkan_backup_from_db1/00000001000000830000005B
Restoring to : pg_xlog/RECOVERYXLOG
Sleep interval : 2 seconds
Max wait interval : 0 forever
Command for restore : cp "/var/tafkan_backup_from_db1/00000001000000830000005B" "pg_xlog/RECOVERYXLOG"
Keep archive history : 00000001000000830000004D and later
WAL file not present yet. Checking for trigger file...
WAL file not present yet. Checking for trigger file...
WAL file not present yet. Checking for trigger file...
running restore : OK
Trigger file : /tmp/pgsql.trigger
Waiting for WAL file : 00000001000000830000005B
WAL file path : /var/tafkan_backup_from_db1/00000001000000830000005B
Restoring to : pg_xlog/RECOVERYXLOG
Sleep interval : 2 seconds
Max wait interval : 0 forever
Command for restore : cp "/var/tafkan_backup_from_db1/00000001000000830000005B" "pg_xlog/RECOVERYXLOG"
Keep archive history : 000000000000000000000000 and later
running restore : OK
[** All of a sudden it starts looks for .history files **]
Trigger file : /tmp/pgsql.trigger
Waiting for WAL file : 00000002.history
WAL file path : /var/tafkan_backup_from_db1/00000002.history
Restoring to : pg_xlog/RECOVERYHISTORY
Sleep interval : 2 seconds
Max wait interval : 0 forever
Command for restore : cp "/var/tafkan_backup_from_db1/00000002.history" "pg_xlog/RECOVERYHISTORY"
Keep archive history : 000000000000000000000000 and later
running restore :cp: cannot stat `/var/tafkan_backup_from_db1/00000002.history': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/var/tafkan_backup_from_db1/00000002.history': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/var/tafkan_backup_from_db1/00000002.history': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/var/tafkan_backup_from_db1/00000002.history': No such file or directory
not restored
history file not found
Trigger file : /tmp/pgsql.trigger
Waiting for WAL file : 00000001.history
WAL file path : /var/tafkan_backup_from_db1/00000001.history
Restoring to : pg_xlog/RECOVERYHISTORY
Sleep interval : 2 seconds
Max wait interval : 0 forever
Command for restore : cp "/var/tafkan_backup_from_db1/00000001.history" "pg_xlog/RECOVERYHISTORY"
Keep archive history : 000000000000000000000000 and later
running restore :cp: cannot stat `/var/tafkan_backup_from_db1/00000001.history': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/var/tafkan_backup_from_db1/00000001.history': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/var/tafkan_backup_from_db1/00000001.history': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/var/tafkan_backup_from_db1/00000001.history': No such file or directory
not restored
history file not found
[** I stopped Postgres, renamed recovery.done to recovery.conf, and restarted it. **]
Trigger file : /tmp/pgsql.trigger
Waiting for WAL file : 00000002.history
WAL file path : /var/tafkan_backup_from_db1/00000002.history
Restoring to : pg_xlog/RECOVERYHISTORY
Sleep interval : 2 seconds
Max wait interval : 0 forever
Command for restore : cp "/var/tafkan_backup_from_db1/00000002.history" "pg_xlog/RECOVERYHISTORY"
Keep archive history : 000000000000000000000000 and later
running restore :cp: cannot stat `/var/tafkan_backup_from_db1/00000002.history': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/var/tafkan_backup_from_db1/00000002.history': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/var/tafkan_backup_from_db1/00000002.history': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/var/tafkan_backup_from_db1/00000002.history': No such file or directory
not restored
history file not found
Trigger file : /tmp/pgsql.trigger
Waiting for WAL file : 0000000200000083000000A2
WAL file path : /var/tafkan_backup_from_db1/0000000200000083000000A2
Restoring to : pg_xlog/RECOVERYXLOG
Sleep interval : 2 seconds
Max wait interval : 0 forever
Command for restore : cp "/var/tafkan_backup_from_db1/0000000200000083000000A2" "pg_xlog/RECOVERYXLOG"
Keep archive history : 000000000000000000000000 and later
WAL file not present yet. Checking for trigger file...
WAL file not present yet. Checking for trigger file...
WAL file not present yet. Checking for trigger file...
WAL file not present yet. Checking for trigger file...
[** This file is not present. All WAL files start with 00000001. **]
Любые идеи? Я даже не знаю, что такое файлы .history, и (в основном отличная) документация не очень ясна по этому поводу.
PS. Хотел бы я запускать виртуальные машины, чтобы использовать текст ссылки, а не нужно беспокоиться о любой этой ерунде HA на уровне приложений :-)
Обновление: вот некоторые журналы с резервного сервера примерно в это время. Похоже, что-то заставило сервер перестать восстанавливаться и подключиться к сети, но я не знаю что. Я почти уверен, что ничто не могло создать триггерный файл.
2010-01-20 03:30:15 EST 4b3a5c63.401b LOG: restored log file "00000001000000830000005A" from archive
2010-01-20 03:30:23 EST 4b3a5c63.401b LOG: restored log file "00000001000000830000005B" from archive
2010-01-20 03:30:23 EST 4b3a5c63.401b LOG: record with zero length at 83/5BFA2FF8
2010-01-20 03:30:23 EST 4b3a5c63.401b LOG: redo done at 83/5BFA2FAC
2010-01-20 03:30:23 EST 4b3a5c63.401b LOG: last completed transaction was at log time 2010-01-20 03:28:04.594399-05
2010-01-20 03:30:25 EST 4b3a5c63.401b LOG: restored log file "00000001000000830000005B" from archive
2010-01-20 03:30:37 EST 4b3a5c63.401b LOG: selected new timeline ID: 2
2010-01-20 03:30:49 EST 4b3a5c63.401b LOG: archive recovery complete
2010-01-20 03:30:59 EST 4b3a5c62.4019 LOG: database system is ready to accept connections