Re: [BUGS] BUG #14806: WAL replay on standby: could not link file "pg_xlog/...4C" to "pg_xlog/...D1": File exists

email@piotr-stefaniak.me writes:
> We have an archive-only replicating standby. During intensive WAL replay, it
> sometimes happens that the standby will say "58P02: could not link file
> "pg_xlog/[...]" to "pg_xlog/[...]": File exists" as in the example below. It
> looks like some kind of race condition.

This is normal I believe; in any case it looks pretty harmless, since
RemoveXlogFile will just remove the file if it fails to recycle it
as a future xlog segment.
        regards, tom lane


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