timeline 2 of the primary does not match recovery target timeline 1 I want to create a configuration with postgresql and pgpool to get height availability (HA). I want to do this:

  .-----.                  .--------.
  |     |           W      |   DB   |
  | APP |-----+-----------&gt;| MASTER |----.
  |     |     |            |        |    |
  `-----`     |            `--------`    | STREAMING REPLICATION
              |            .--------.    |
              |     R      |   DB   |    |
              +-----------&gt;| SLAVE1 |&lt;---+      
              |            |        |    |
              |            `--------`    |
              |            .--------.    |
              |     R      |   DB   |    |
              `-----------&gt;| SLAVE2 |&lt;---`
                           |        |
                           `--------`
after failover:

  .-----.                  .--------.
  |     |                  |   DB   |
  | APP |-----+----        | MASTER |
  |     |     |            |  FAIL  |
  `-----`     |            `--------`
              |            .--------.
              |    W/R     |   DB   |
              +-----------&gt;| SLAVE1 |---.          
              |            |        |   |
              |            `--------`   |
              |            .--------.   | STREAMING REPLICATION
              |     R      |   DB   |   |
              `-----------&gt;| SLAVE2 |&lt;--`
                           |        |
                           `--------`


Follow the post for HA PostgreSQL Cluster by Streaming Replication + pgpool-II I am created 4 virtual machines (vm) with vagrant. One Master (M), two Slaves (S1 and S2) and other for pgpool (APP). When I do some queries in APP all work fine. When I stop the master, S1 is promoted to M and the S2 now have a new master. But this get me a problem. I don't know what this error mean and I am lost thinking how to fix it:

2014-08-18 17:04:56 UTC FATAL:  timeline 2 of the primary does not match recovery target timeline 1


I am using:


postgres 9.1
pgpool 3.1.1-1


UPDATE

This error is emitted by S2 when S1 is promoted to Master. 

UPDATE 2

Nodes IP Address:

M  - 192.168.1.10
S1 - 192.168.1.11
S2 - 192.168.1.12
APP- 192.168.1.13


This is my recovery.conf file configuration for S1 and S2.

standby_mode = 'on'
primary_conninfo = 'host=192.168.1.10 port=5432 user=replicator password=replicator'
trigger_file = '/tmp/postgresql.trigger.5432'


UPDATE 3

Here is my backends into the /etc/pgpool2/pgpool.conf file:

...
backend_hostname0 = '192.168.1.10'
backend_port0 = 5432
backend_weight0 = 0
backend_data_directory0 = '/var/lib/postgresql/9.1/main'
backend_flag0 = 'ALLOW_TO_FAILOVER'

backend_hostname1 = '192.168.1.11'
backend_port1 = 5432
backend_weight1 = 0
backend_data_directory1 = '/var/lib/postgresql/9.1/main'
backend_flag1 = 'ALLOW_TO_FAILOVER'

backend_hostname2 = '192.168.1.12'
backend_port2 = 5432
backend_weight2 = 0
backend_data_directory2 = '/var/lib/postgresql/9.1/main'
backend_flag2 = 'ALLOW_TO_FAILOVER'


#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# FAILOVER AND FAILBACK
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------

failover_command = '/var/lib/postgresql/bin/failover.sh %d %M %m'


And it is failover.sh file:

#!/bin/sh
FALLING_NODE=$1
OLD_MASTER=$2
NEW_MASTER=$3
SLAVE1='slave1'
SLAVE2='slave2'
if test $FALLING_NODE -eq 0
then
ssh -T $SLAVE1 touch /tmp/postgresql.trigger.5432
ssh -T $SLAVE1 "while test ! -f /var/lib/postgresql/9.1/main/recovery.done; $
ssh -T $SLAVE2 "sed -i 's/192.168.1.10/192.168.1.11/' /var/lib/postgresql/9.$
ssh -T $SLAVE2 /etc/init.d/postgresql restart
/usr/sbin/pcp_attach_node 10 localhost 9898 pgpool pgpool 2
fi
The issue is covered in this detailed blog.

In short, the master and the standby servers must all have archive_mode = on and an archive_command, until 9.3 which removes this requirement.