Re:

Henry Korszun <henryk302@yahoo.com> writes:

> I understand what you're saying, but I don't know what's causing the "touch" in the first place.  I guess I need to
furtherexamine/debug. Thanks for your help. 
> On Friday, April 25, 2014 2:00 PM, Scott Whitney <scott@journyx.com> wrote:
> The slave doesn't "turn off" the master. The trigger file is intended to be touched _when the master is down_.

Nor do we.

Possibly your system is running some HA software and it's  onlining your
standby due to false-positive.

>
> Since the master never WENT down (or came back up) and the trigger file was touched, the slave got promoted.
>
> You'll need to stop the slave, run your select pg_startbackup(), rsync, etc to get your slave back to slave mode.
>
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>     There IS a trigger file, which does appear to have been "touch"ed.  But the problem is that a fail-over hasn't
reallyoccurred since the original read/write primary 
>     continues to be a fully functioning read/write machine. But it's no longer replicating to the erstwhile standby,
whichhas become read/write.  Bottom line, I now 
>     have 2 read/write machines, but with no replication between them.
>     On Friday, April 25, 2014 1:43 PM, Scott Whitney <scott@journyx.com> wrote:
>     Sounds like you might have a "trigger_file" set in your recovery.conf. Do you? That or someone is issuing a
pg_ctlpromote command. 
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>         I'm using PostgreSQL 9.2.4 on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20070115 (SUSE Linux),
64-bit.
>
>         I set up streaming replication for a read/write primary and a read/only standby. The replication works fine
fora while, and then out of the blue BOTH machines 
>         become read/write, but with no replication from the original primary to the newly read/write standby.
>
>         The only log entry that seems relevant is as follows: FATAL,57P01,"terminating walreceiver process due to
administrator
>         command",,,,,,,,"ProcessWalRcvInterrupts, walreceiver.c:150",""
>
>         Any help/guidance would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
>

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