On 10/24/23 19:29, Brad White wrote:
> I have the replication server set up and the streaming is working.
> The latest data show up, as desired.
>
> 3 minor issues.
>
> 1) I also have the WAL files being copied to a common location from the
> primary server with
> archive_command = 'copy %p
> "\\\\DISKSTATION\\AccessData\\Prod\\WALfiles\\%f"'
>
> It's not clear to me how the replication server finds those files.
It doesn't, because streaming replication continuous streams WAL records.
>
> I also have the cleanup set to go, but it doesn't seem to be cleaning up
> any of the archived files.
> archive_cleanup_command = 'pg_archivecleanup
> \\\\DISKSTATION\\AccessData\\Prod\\WALfiles %r'
>
> 2) I have the connection string set for the replication server to connect,
> primary_conninfo = 'host = 192.168.1.112 port = 5433 user =
> {pg_rep_user }password = {password}'
> But the log file shows
> LOG: waiting for WAL to become available at 2/A10000B8
> FATAL: could not connect to the primary server: connection to server
> at "{IP}", port 5433 failed: fe_sendauth: no password supplied
But you said that streaming is working.
> 3) When I run
> "C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\15\bin\pg_ctl.exe" promote -D "C:\Program
> Files\PostgreSQL\15\data"
> on the backup to promote it to Primary, I get
> pg_ctl: could not send promote signal (PID: 3996): Operation not permitted
>
> Thanks for all the help so far,
> Brad.
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