PostgreSQL 55000 error - Burak Kaymakci

We had a Kafka consumer which was crashing with the error below

(Postgrex.Error ERROR 55000 (object_not_in_prerequisite_state) recovery is in progress

    hint: WAL control functions cannot be executed during recovery.)

In that consumer module, there was a function which was eventually trying to get the LSN from the DB by querying something like

SELECT pg_last_wal_replay_lsn()::varchar

It turns out we were actually querying a replica where WAL was enabled, figured that out quite quickly by asking in #postgresql IRC. (Well, if you’re querying the LSN it obviously means you’ve got WAL enabled, it’s even in the function name! But didn’t know it back then. ¯_(ツ)/¯_)

10:49 < Berge> Note that a replica (using WAL replication) is considered to be in recovery

Thank you Berge! TIL!