Re: record with incorrect prev-link

--On 14. September 2010 11:42:45 +0200 Philippe Rimbault <primbault@edd.fr>
wrote:

> I've found this message in my server log (on the standby server) :
> ...
> 2010-09-14 11:10:51 CEST ( )LOG:  record with incorrect prev-link
> 1/798BDFC4 at 1/7B8BE010
> 2010-09-14 11:10:51 CEST ( )FATAL:  terminating walreceiver process due
> to administrator command
> cp: impossible d'évaluer « /opt/wal/00000001000000010000007B »: Aucun
> fichier ou dossier de ce type
> 2010-09-14 11:10:51 CEST ( )LOG:  record with incorrect prev-link
> 1/798BDFC4 at 1/7B8BE010
> cp: impossible d'évaluer « /opt/wal/00000001000000010000007B »: Aucun
> fichier ou dossier de ce type
> 2010-09-14 11:10:51 CEST ( )LOG:  streaming replication successfully
> connected to primary
> ...
> (i'm french, the message "Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type" = "no such
> file or directory")

Maybe i'm wrong, but if I understand the code correctly this could mean
that the walreceiver got a corrupted wal record, was shut down and the
retry code retried recovering from the archive. Just guessing, but maybe
there are issues with your network connectivity involved? Are you keeping
getting such errors?

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Thanks

    Bernd