[pgpool-general: 923] Re: recovery command failed but SELECT pgpool_recovery(...) works

Kent Tong kent.tong.mo at gmail.com
Tue Aug 28 14:02:13 JST 2012


The basebackup.sh is very simple: just print something to a log:

#! /bin/sh
datadir=$1
desthost=$2
destdir=$3

echo "recovering: " $desthost >> /tmp/f1.log
echo $* >> /tmp/f1.log
exit 0

On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Soni Maula Harriz <
soni.harriz at sangkuriang.co.id> wrote:

> you can test each command reside in basebackup.sh via terminal using user
> postgres, so you can tell which command failed
>
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Kent Tong <kent.tong.mo at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am using 3.1.3 and working on the online recovery. After issuing the
>> "pcp_recovery_node -d 10 localhost 9898 postgres postgres 0" command to try
>> to recover backend 0, it fails:
>>
>> EBUG: send: tos="R", len=46
>> DEBUG: recv: tos="r", len=21, data=AuthenticationOK
>> DEBUG: send: tos="D", len=6
>> DEBUG: recv: tos="e", len=20, data=recovery failed
>> DEBUG: command failed. reason=recovery failed
>> BackendError
>> DEBUG: send: tos="X", len=4
>>
>> The following messages are found in the log. It means that pgpool
>> connected the to backend 0 successfully but the SELECT failed:
>>
>> Aug 28 12:32:44 pgpool02 pgpool[3791]: starting recovering node 0
>>
>> Aug 28 12:32:44 pgpool02 pgpool[3791]: starting recovery command: "SELECT
>> pgpool_recovery('basebackup.sh', 'masterdb', '/var/lib/pgsql/9.1/data')"
>>
>> Aug 28 12:32:44 pgpool02 pgpool[3791]: exec_recovery: basebackup.sh
>> command failed at 1st stage
>>
>> However, I can use psql to execute that SELECT query on the pgpool
>> machine successfully:
>>
>> [root at pgpool02 pgpool-II-91]# psql -h masterdb -c "SELECT
>> pgpool_recovery('basebackup.sh', 'masterdb', '/var/lib/pgsql/9.1/data')"
>> template1 postgres
>> Password for user postgres:
>>
>>  pgpool_recovery
>>
>> -----------------
>>
>>  t
>>
>> (1 row)
>>
>> The recovery_user and recovery_password have been set to "postgres" and
>> its password.
>>
>> So, any idea why it failed?
>>
>> --
>> Kent Tong
>> IT author and consultant, child educator
>>
>>
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>
>
> --
> Best Regards,
>
> Soni Maula Harriz
> Database Administrator
> PT. Data Aksara Sangkuriang
>
>


-- 
Kent Tong
IT author and consultant, child educator
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