Re: timeline X of the primary does not match recovery target timeline Y

On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 08:54 -0400, Adam Tistler wrote:
> I am trying to set up master/slave warm standby streaming replication
> (9.1).  I am not doing archiving/log shipping.  I have read that you
> cannot reverse roles between the master and slave, and that once a
> slave is "promoted", you need to use  pg_basebackup or rsync to copy
> files from the newly promoted master to the old master.  I am fine
> with this, however, in my case all I am trying to do is re-enable the
> slave to be in recovery mode. I am doing this by deleting the trigger
> file ( which I had originally created to promote the slave to master )
> and moving recovery.done to recovery.conf, then restarting postgres.
> As a result I get the following error:
>
> FATAL:  timeline 2 of the primary does not match recovery target
> timeline 3

Once it's promoted to a primary, you can't set it to start recovering
from another system again (without taking a new base backup).

Did I understand your question correctly?

Regards,
    Jeff Davis