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Re: psql: FATAL: the database system is starting up


  • From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
  • To: valiouk(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)uk
  • Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
  • Subject: Re: psql: FATAL: the database system is starting up
  • Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:37:29 -0400
  • Message-id: <19584.1214869049@sss.pgh.pa.us> <text/plain>

Valentin Bogdanov <valiouk(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)uk> writes:
> I run out of disk space on the box and had to delete some files and restart postgres. Ever since I have been getting the above message. PS shows this process:
> 9351 ?        D      0:04 postgres: startup process
> Running an strace on this process shows that it is trying to write 8K of zeros to a file called 023D in pg_clog but fails at 224K and it just keeps trying forever.

What PG version is this, exactly?  What files did you delete (any of
Postgres' files)?

			regards, tom lane



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