Exporter container log of replica instance always reports pg_replication_slots pq: recovery is in progress

[dominik0711]

What did you do?
I have set up a crunchy postgres cluster on my OpenShift cluster with 1 master and 2 replica instances. exporter container is running as sidecar container. All the replicas logs the following error message:

ts=2023-11-16T13:00:00.362Z caller=namespace.go:236 level=info err="Error running query on database \"localhost:5432\": pg_replication_slots pq: recovery is in progress"
ts=2023-11-16T13:00:00.379Z caller=postgres_exporter.go:731 level=error err="queryNamespaceMappings returned 1 errors"

What did you expect to see?
Replication slots on Replicas are always inactive and in recovery mode so I don't expect to see any errors here

What did you see instead? Under which circumstances?

All replicas reports the same messages listed here:

ts=2023-11-16T13:00:00.362Z caller=namespace.go:236 level=info err="Error running query on database \"localhost:5432\": pg_replication_slots pq: recovery is in progress"
ts=2023-11-16T13:00:00.379Z caller=postgres_exporter.go:731 level=error err="queryNamespaceMappings returned 1 errors"

Environment

OpenShift 4.11 on Azure

• System information:

Linux 4.18.0-372.76.1.el8_6.x86_64 x86_64

• postgres_exporter version:

postgres_exporter, version 0.10.1 (branch: HEAD, revision: 6cff384)
build user: root@eb21848025d7
build date: 20220114-17:20:30
go version: go1.17.6
platform: linux/amd64

• postgres_exporter flags:

        - name: CONFIG_DIR
          value: /opt/cpm/conf
        - name: POSTGRES_EXPORTER_PORT
          value: '9187'
        - name: PGBACKREST_INFO_THROTTLE_MINUTES
          value: '10'
        - name: PG_STAT_STATEMENTS_LIMIT
          value: '20'
        - name: PG_STAT_STATEMENTS_THROTTLE_MINUTES
          value: '-1'
        - name: EXPORTER_PG_HOST
          value: localhost
        - name: EXPORTER_PG_PORT
          value: '5432'
        - name: EXPORTER_PG_DATABASE
          value: postgres
        - name: EXPORTER_PG_USER
          value: ccp_monitoring
        - name: EXPORTER_PG_PASSWORD
          valueFrom:
            secretKeyRef:
              name: flexis-io-dev-scm-billing-monitoring
              key: password

• PostgreSQL version:

psql (PostgreSQL) 13.6

• Logs:

ts=2023-11-16T13:00:00.362Z caller=namespace.go:236 level=info err="Error running query on database \"localhost:5432\": pg_replication_slots pq: recovery is in progress"
ts=2023-11-16T13:00:00.379Z caller=postgres_exporter.go:731 level=error err="queryNamespaceMappings returned 1 errors"

[heitatta]

It seems to me that pg_current_wal_lsn() function call caused this issue in queries.go

Other collectors use an idiom like:
(case pg_is_in_recovery() when 't' then null else pg_current_wal_lsn() end) AS pg_current_wal_lsn,
but not in this query. You can't call this function in PostgreSQL sending and receiving replication (this situationr happens in the "child" in parent-child-grandchid replication senario).

To avoid this error, fix this issue or --no-collector.replication_slot option might help.

[DJLebedev]

Same problem. PostgreSQL 14.8, postgres_exporter 0.15.0
And --no-collector.replication_slot does not fix this.

[ihordyrman]

I'm facing the same issue.
PostgreSQL: 16.2.0
Exporter: postgres-exporter:v0.15.0

postgres-exporter ts=2024-05-14T02:00:02.451Z caller=namespace.go:236 level=info err="Error running query on database \"192.168.0.3:5432\": pg_replication_slots pq: recovery is in progress"
postgres-exporter ts=2024-05-14T02:00:02.451Z caller=postgres_exporter.go:682 level=error err="queryNamespaceMappings returned 1 errors"
postgres-exporter ts=2024-05-14T02:00:05.266Z caller=namespace.go:236 level=info err="Error running query on database \"192.168.0.2:5432\": pg_replication_slots pq: recovery is in progress"
postgres-exporter ts=2024-05-14T02:00:05.348Z caller=postgres_exporter.go:682 level=error err="queryNamespaceMappings returned 1 errors" 
postgres-exporter ts=2024-05-14T02:00:05.956Z caller=namespace.go:236 level=info err="Error running query on database \"192.168.0.2:5432\": pg_replication_slots pq: recovery is in progress"
postgres-exporter ts=2024-05-14T02:00:05.956Z caller=postgres_exporter.go:682 level=error err="queryNamespaceMappings returned 1 errors"
postgres-exporter ts=2024-05-14T02:00:08.350Z caller=namespace.go:236 level=info err="Error running query on database \"192.168.0.2:5432\": pg_replication_slots pq: recovery is in progress"

[dusatvoj]

Same on patroni cluster with pglogical to another cluster

[tunbb]

pg 13
exporter 0.15.0，
how to fix it?
@sysadmind / @SuperQ / @Sticksman /

[agent-atlas]

I also encountered this problem, but despite the errors, replication is going correctly.
how to fix it?

[cgmEdi]

I'm experiencing similar issues.

[La0]

We have the same issue on a Patroni cluster with postgres 17

[camac2025]

FWIW - me too. I am involved in an upgrade from PG14/pg-exporter 0.11 and assumed it would take care of this.. but it seems not?

Edit: oops, just noticed link above suggests this was fixed in 0.16...