Loading howto/postgresql.md +29 −0 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -1266,6 +1266,35 @@ including the former were removed by hand. Then a full backup was performed. The reason why the BASE backup was missing is this was following a failed upgrade (see [tpo/tpa/team#40809](https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/issues/40809)). ### UNEXPECTED-TIMELINE If the backup check script is complaining like this: [rude, main] UNEXPECTED-TIMELINE: rude/main.WAL.000000020000010200000015 It's likely because the [timeline](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/continuous-archiving.html#BACKUP-TIMELINES) was bumped, which can happen on certain restore scenarios. The check script doesn't handle this very well. You need to inform said script of the timeline change, by adding a `timeline` entry in the `/etc/nagios/dsa-check-backuppg.conf` script, for example, the entry for rude was changed from: ``` rude: main: ~ ``` To: ``` rude: main: timeline: 2 ``` Alternatively, a dump/restore will reset the timeline to the normal "1", but then you'd need to move the directory out of the way and make a new full backup. ### OOM (Out Of Memory) We have had situations where PostgreSQL ran out of memory a few times Loading Loading
howto/postgresql.md +29 −0 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -1266,6 +1266,35 @@ including the former were removed by hand. Then a full backup was performed. The reason why the BASE backup was missing is this was following a failed upgrade (see [tpo/tpa/team#40809](https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/issues/40809)). ### UNEXPECTED-TIMELINE If the backup check script is complaining like this: [rude, main] UNEXPECTED-TIMELINE: rude/main.WAL.000000020000010200000015 It's likely because the [timeline](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/continuous-archiving.html#BACKUP-TIMELINES) was bumped, which can happen on certain restore scenarios. The check script doesn't handle this very well. You need to inform said script of the timeline change, by adding a `timeline` entry in the `/etc/nagios/dsa-check-backuppg.conf` script, for example, the entry for rude was changed from: ``` rude: main: ~ ``` To: ``` rude: main: timeline: 2 ``` Alternatively, a dump/restore will reset the timeline to the normal "1", but then you'd need to move the directory out of the way and make a new full backup. ### OOM (Out Of Memory) We have had situations where PostgreSQL ran out of memory a few times Loading
