Avoid orphaned objects on delete

pkg/cluster/cluster.go

@@ -164,11 +164,13 @@ func (c *Cluster) setStatus(status string) {
 	}
 
 	// we cannot do a full scale update here without fetching the previous manifest (as the resourceVersion may differ),
-	// however, we could do patch without it. In the future, once /status subresource is there (starting Kubernets 1.11)
+	// however, we could do patch without it. In the future, once /status subresource is there (starting Kubernetes 1.11)
 	// we should take advantage of it.
 	newspec, err := c.KubeClient.AcidV1ClientSet.AcidV1().Postgresqls(c.clusterNamespace()).Patch(c.Name, types.MergePatchType, patch, "status")
 	if err != nil {
 		c.logger.Errorf("could not update status: %v", err)
+		// return as newspec is empty, see PR654
+		return
 	}
 	// update the spec, maintaining the new resourceVersion.
 	c.setSpec(newspec)

pkg/cluster/util.go

@@ -365,7 +365,7 @@ func (c *Cluster) waitStatefulsetPodsReady() error {
 	c.setProcessName("waiting for the pods of the statefulset")
 	// TODO: wait for the first Pod only
 	if err := c.waitStatefulsetReady(); err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("statuful set error: %v", err)
+		return fmt.Errorf("stateful set error: %v", err)
 	}
 
 	// TODO: wait only for master

pkg/util/k8sutil/k8sutil.go

@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ func ResourceNotFound(err error) bool {
 	return apierrors.IsNotFound(err)
 }
 
-// NewFromConfig create Kubernets Interface using REST config
+// NewFromConfig create Kubernetes Interface using REST config
 func NewFromConfig(cfg *rest.Config) (KubernetesClient, error) {
 	kubeClient := KubernetesClient{}