Re: pg_rewind

On Thu, 2020-01-23 at 15:39 +0000, soumik.bhattacharjee@kpn.com wrote:
> I am trying to make my previous Master as Master by roll backing the changes happen into Standby
> 
> In Original MASTER I am running below –
> 
> /usr/lib/postgresql/12/bin$ ./pg_rewind -D $PGDATA --source-server='host=<IP Address> port=5432' -P
> pg_rewind: fatal: could not connect to server: fe_sendauth: no password supplied
> 
> I'm not sure why this keeps happening.

Because you used the wrong user or didn't specify a password?

Try

   --source-server='host=<IP Address> port=5432 user=... password=...'

Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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