Postgres的HA（基于WAL-运费）失败

Question

我希望有人可以帮我一个WAL-航运和热备份问题。我的备用系统顺利地执行了几个星期，然后所有突然它开始寻找不存在的.history中的文件。然后，它胡扯了，我不能成功地重新启动它，无需重建备用。

这两种系统正在运行的CentOS 4.5和Postgres 8.4.1。他们使用NFS WAL文件从生产存储上待机。

日志的相关大块，有我的评语：

[** Recovery is running normally **]

Trigger file            : /tmp/pgsql.trigger
Waiting for WAL file    : 00000001000000830000005B
WAL file path           : /var/tafkan_backup_from_db1/00000001000000830000005B
Restoring to            : pg_xlog/RECOVERYXLOG
Sleep interval          : 2 seconds
Max wait interval       : 0 forever
Command for restore     : cp "/var/tafkan_backup_from_db1/00000001000000830000005B" "pg_xlog/RECOVERYXLOG"
Keep archive history    : 00000001000000830000004D and later
WAL file not present yet. Checking for trigger file...
WAL file not present yet. Checking for trigger file...
WAL file not present yet. Checking for trigger file...
running restore         : OK

Trigger file            : /tmp/pgsql.trigger
Waiting for WAL file    : 00000001000000830000005B
WAL file path           : /var/tafkan_backup_from_db1/00000001000000830000005B
Restoring to            : pg_xlog/RECOVERYXLOG
Sleep interval          : 2 seconds
Max wait interval       : 0 forever
Command for restore     : cp "/var/tafkan_backup_from_db1/00000001000000830000005B" "pg_xlog/RECOVERYXLOG"
Keep archive history    : 000000000000000000000000 and later
running restore         : OK

[** All of a sudden it starts looks for .history files **]

Trigger file            : /tmp/pgsql.trigger
Waiting for WAL file    : 00000002.history
WAL file path           : /var/tafkan_backup_from_db1/00000002.history
Restoring to            : pg_xlog/RECOVERYHISTORY
Sleep interval          : 2 seconds
Max wait interval       : 0 forever
Command for restore     : cp "/var/tafkan_backup_from_db1/00000002.history" "pg_xlog/RECOVERYHISTORY"
Keep archive history    : 000000000000000000000000 and later
running restore         :cp: cannot stat `/var/tafkan_backup_from_db1/00000002.history': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/var/tafkan_backup_from_db1/00000002.history': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/var/tafkan_backup_from_db1/00000002.history': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/var/tafkan_backup_from_db1/00000002.history': No such file or directory
not restored
history file not found
Trigger file            : /tmp/pgsql.trigger
Waiting for WAL file    : 00000001.history
WAL file path           : /var/tafkan_backup_from_db1/00000001.history
Restoring to            : pg_xlog/RECOVERYHISTORY
Sleep interval          : 2 seconds
Max wait interval       : 0 forever
Command for restore     : cp "/var/tafkan_backup_from_db1/00000001.history" "pg_xlog/RECOVERYHISTORY"
Keep archive history    : 000000000000000000000000 and later
running restore         :cp: cannot stat `/var/tafkan_backup_from_db1/00000001.history': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/var/tafkan_backup_from_db1/00000001.history': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/var/tafkan_backup_from_db1/00000001.history': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/var/tafkan_backup_from_db1/00000001.history': No such file or directory
not restored
history file not found

[** I stopped Postgres, renamed recovery.done to recovery.conf, and restarted it. **]

Trigger file            : /tmp/pgsql.trigger
Waiting for WAL file    : 00000002.history
WAL file path           : /var/tafkan_backup_from_db1/00000002.history
Restoring to            : pg_xlog/RECOVERYHISTORY
Sleep interval          : 2 seconds
Max wait interval       : 0 forever
Command for restore     : cp "/var/tafkan_backup_from_db1/00000002.history" "pg_xlog/RECOVERYHISTORY"
Keep archive history    : 000000000000000000000000 and later
running restore         :cp: cannot stat `/var/tafkan_backup_from_db1/00000002.history': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/var/tafkan_backup_from_db1/00000002.history': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/var/tafkan_backup_from_db1/00000002.history': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/var/tafkan_backup_from_db1/00000002.history': No such file or directory
not restored
history file not found
Trigger file            : /tmp/pgsql.trigger
Waiting for WAL file    : 0000000200000083000000A2
WAL file path           : /var/tafkan_backup_from_db1/0000000200000083000000A2
Restoring to            : pg_xlog/RECOVERYXLOG
Sleep interval          : 2 seconds
Max wait interval       : 0 forever
Command for restore     : cp "/var/tafkan_backup_from_db1/0000000200000083000000A2" "pg_xlog/RECOVERYXLOG"
Keep archive history    : 000000000000000000000000 and later
WAL file not present yet. Checking for trigger file...
WAL file not present yet. Checking for trigger file...
WAL file not present yet. Checking for trigger file...
WAL file not present yet. Checking for trigger file...

[** This file is not present. All WAL files start with 00000001. **] 

任何想法？我甚至不知道什么.history中文件，以及（大部分是优秀）的文件是不是很任意的这一点。

PS。我希望我是运行的虚拟机，所以我可以使用链接文本和不具有约任何这个应用程序级HA无义的担心： - ）

更新：下面是一些从所述备用服务器的日志的在大约这个时候。它看起来像是由服务器停止回收和联机，但我不知道是什么。我敢肯定，没有什么能够创建触发器文件。

2010-01-20 03:30:15 EST 4b3a5c63.401b LOG:  restored log file "00000001000000830000005A" from archive
2010-01-20 03:30:23 EST 4b3a5c63.401b LOG:  restored log file "00000001000000830000005B" from archive
2010-01-20 03:30:23 EST 4b3a5c63.401b LOG:  record with zero length at 83/5BFA2FF8
2010-01-20 03:30:23 EST 4b3a5c63.401b LOG:  redo done at 83/5BFA2FAC
2010-01-20 03:30:23 EST 4b3a5c63.401b LOG:  last completed transaction was at log time 2010-01-20 03:28:04.594399-05
2010-01-20 03:30:25 EST 4b3a5c63.401b LOG:  restored log file "00000001000000830000005B" from archive
2010-01-20 03:30:37 EST 4b3a5c63.401b LOG:  selected new timeline ID: 2
2010-01-20 03:30:49 EST 4b3a5c63.401b LOG:  archive recovery complete
2010-01-20 03:30:59 EST 4b3a5c62.4019 LOG:  database system is ready to accept connections

Answer 1

我能够通过更新操作上我的两个PostgreSQL的服务器系统CentOS的解决这个问题。因此，我认为这是某种类型的下层的联网错误的症状。

Answer 2

一个完全不同的用于HA的方法可能是托管 DRBD 中之间共享设备上的PG数据库两台机器。

Answer 3

你是用自己的恢复脚本/程序？如果是 - 请不要这么做。使用pg_standby和PostgreSQL的contrib。

否则 - 只是忽略.history中文件

Answer 4

您复制的副本在某些点上线了。 “00000002.history”正在寻找一个时间表00000002历史文件，而你的日志的其余部分开始00000001，这是原来的时间表。

我会检查你的PostgreSQL日志权利之前就开始寻找历史文件，看看是否有任何指示DB来到网上，须臾。