Re: Streaming Replication - Error on Standby

On 02/11/2014 10:12 AM, bobJobS wrote:
> Postgres 9.3.2.
> RHEL 5
>
> After performing all of the Streaming Replication setup steps, I get the
> following error message in my standby DB log file.
>
>    database system identifier differ between the primary and standby
>
> I've double checked the recovery.conf file and it contains the correct
> hostname, port, username and password.
>
> I've also verified that ssh into either the primaryor standby as the
> replication user does not require a password.
>
> When building the standby I took the latest backup from the primary and
> loaded the standby. After, I executed the start backup command on the
> primary, followed by rsync, then the stop backup command.
>
> I've googled the heck out of the error message and I found only references
> to invalid primary connection information.
>
> Any ideas?
>


Also meant to send this link which is newer and covers pg_basebackup:

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Hot_Standby



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