On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Andrew Berman <rexxe98@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm having an issue where streaming replication just randomly stops working.
> I haven't been able to find anything in the logs which point to an issue,
> but the Postgres process shows a "waiting" status on the slave:
>
> postgres 5639 0.1 24.3 3428264 2970236 ? Ss Aug14 1:54 postgres:
> startup process recovering 000000010000053D0000003F waiting
There is a recovery conflict which it is waiting to go away. In other
words, you have a long-running (or long-idle) transaction on the slave
which is blocking recovery.
> max_standby_archive_delay = -1
> max_standby_streaming_delay = -1
...and you are willing to wait forever.
Cheers,
Jeff