Postgres HA (基于WAL-shipping)失败

Question

我希望有人能帮我解决运输和热备的问题。我的备用系统快乐地运行了几个星期，然后突然它开始寻找不存在的.history文件。然后它就崩溃了，如果不重建备用系统，我就无法成功地重启它。

这两个系统都运行CentOS 4.5和Postgres8.4.1。它们使用NFS将生产环境中的WAL文件存储在备用服务器上。

日志的相关部分，以及我的评论：

[** 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. **] 

有什么想法吗？我甚至不知道什么是.history文件，而且文档(大部分都很好)对这些内容都不是很清楚。

PS。我希望我正在运行虚拟机，这样我就可以使用link text，而不必担心任何应用程序级别的HA胡说八道:-)

更新:这里是大约此时备用服务器的一些日志。看起来像是有什么东西使服务器停止恢复并联机，但我不知道是什么原因。我非常确定没有任何东西可以创建触发器文件。

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

我能够通过更新我的两个PostgreSQL服务器上的CentOS操作系统来解决这个问题。因此，我认为这是某种潜在的网络bug的症状。

Answer 2

HA的一种完全不同的方法可能是在两台计算机之间共享的DRBD设备上托管PG数据库。

Answer 3

您是否使用了自己的恢复脚本/程序？如果是，请不要这样做。使用PostgreSQL contrib中的pg_standby。

否则-忽略.history文件。