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Re: power failure....


  • From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
  • To: Tom Allison <tom(at)tacocat(dot)net>
  • Cc: Postgres General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
  • Subject: Re: power failure....
  • Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 22:48:57 -0500
  • Message-id: <10739.1196480937@sss.pgh.pa.us> <text/plain>

Tom Allison <tom(at)tacocat(dot)net> writes:
> 2007-11-30 19:35:20 EST PANIC:  could not locate a valid checkpoint  
> record

Ugh :-(.  pg_resetxlog should get you back into the database, but it's
anybody's guess whether and how badly the contents will be corrupted.
I would recommend trying a dump/reload and also doing any manual
consistency crosschecks you can think of.

> postgres version 8.2 sitting on a Reiser FS on RAID1....

Better take a second look at your disk hardware configuration.  At least
in theory, this Can't Happen if your disk hardware is handling fsync
honestly.

			regards, tom lane



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