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Subject: Re: [External] Re: standby replication server throws invalid memory
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> On Jun 28, 2018, at 10:36 AM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> =
wrote:
>=20
> How are you making the inference that that's the problem? It could =
very
> well be a postgres bug or somebody having used pg_resetxlog or.. ?

There could always be a postgres bug, however misconfigured cache layers =
are a very common cause of this kind of symptom, and postgres bugs very =
rare.

I don't believe pg_resetxlog would cause this particular problem. =
Failure to recovery yes, but not illegal memory operation.=