Docs: document the need for special configuration for symlinked pg_wal (#1818)

If an existing instance was configured with WAL residing outside of
PGDATA then currently a 'reinit' would lose such symlinks. So add some
bits of information on that to draw attention to this cornercase issue
and also add the --waldir option to the sample `postgresql.basebackup`
configuration sections to increase visibility.

Discussion: https://github.com/zalando/patroni/issues/1817
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Kaarel Moppel
2021-02-02 11:50:35 +01:00
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@@ -143,6 +143,10 @@ possible to specify a ``basebackup`` configuration section. Same rules as with t
namely, only long (with --) options should be specified there. Not all parameters make sense, if you override a connection
string or provide an option to created tar-ed or compressed base backups, patroni won't be able to make a replica out
of it. There is no validation performed on the names or values of the parameters passed to the ``basebackup`` section.
Also note that in case symlinks are used for the WAL folder it is up to the user to specify the correct ``--waldir``
path as an option, so that after replica buildup or re-initialization the symlink would persist. This option is supported
only since v10 though.
You can specify basebackup parameters as either a map (key-value pairs) or a list of elements, where each element
could be either a key-value pair or a single key (for options that does not receive any values, for instance, ``--verbose``).
Consider those 2 examples:
@@ -162,6 +166,7 @@ and
basebackup:
- verbose
- max-rate: '100M'
- waldir: /pg-wal-mount/external-waldir
If all replica creation methods fail, Patroni will try again all methods in order during the next event loop cycle.
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@@ -112,6 +112,7 @@ postgresql:
basebackup:
- verbose
- max-rate: 100M
# - waldir: /pg-wal-mount/external-waldir # only needed in case pg_wal is symlinked outside of data_dir
# Additional fencing script executed after acquiring the leader lock but before promoting the replica
#pre_promote: /path/to/pre_promote.sh