Re: Wal fetching standby refuses to promote

This was an atomic snapshot put in recovery and happily reading WALs

from the repo.

It's consistent and allows read-only querying.  It's replayed a few days

worth of WALs and was previously running with a recovery_target_xid =

$some-xid which apparently was never hit and/or aborted.

It would not promote then, after pg_ctl promote.  The 'promote' file did

get created in pgdata.

Now it's running again with recovery.conf that contains just...

standby_mode = on

restore_command = 'cp /somedir/%f %p'

Still it fails to respond to the issuance of a promote.

There is no trigger file config's in recovery.conf and we have never

needed to do same since pg_ctl promote usually works.

Any idea what's causing this?

Thanks

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