Re: Streaming-only cascading replica won't come up without writes on the master

On 01.02.2013 02:04, Josh Berkus wrote:
> I thought this was only a 9.3 issue, but it turns out to be
> reproduceable on 9.2.2.  Basically, I did:
>
> 1. master is queicent ... no writes occuring.
> 2. createded cascading replica (reprep1) from replica (repmaster)
> 3. reprep1 remains "in recovery mode" until a write occurs on master
>
> I've been able to reproduce this several times on my laptop using
> postmasters running on different ports.

Hmm, that sounds like the issue discussed here: 
http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/50C7612E.5060008@vmware.com, and 
fixed by this commit:

http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit;h=fb565f8c9616ec8ab1b5176d16f310725e581e6e

Can you check if you still see that behavior with REL9_2_STABLE?

- Heikki