Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2019 15:09:05 -0400
From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Vikas Bodani <vikas@webdataconsulting.in>
Cc: arnab biswas <arnab.biswas@associates.scit.edu>,
	pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: postgresql.conf file goes missing everytime I restart postgres
 DB server.
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On 2019-Apr-10, Vikas Bodani wrote:

> > Maybe you have some HA tool that starts up another server, and delete
> > this one's config file in order to prevent split-brain.
> 
> Thanks Alvaro. Since this happens during the multi-master bdr setup, could
> the other postgres instance within bdr, begin up and running while we
> restart this one, delete this one's config?

BDR by itself does not do that, to the best of my knowledge.  I hope you
didn't install the files twice somehow, so that one node's files
overwrote the other node's; I would be very surprised if it let you do
that anyway.

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