Re: Missing pg_clog files

Hello,

I tried creating the files 0000 through 002F. Pg_dump still will not
run. The error was as follows:

-bash-3.00$ pg_dump -U postgres ebiz > ebiz_bk.sql
pg_dump: SQL command failed
pg_dump: Error message from server: ERROR: could not access status
of transaction 20080015
DETAIL: Could not read from file "pg_clog/0013" at offset 32768:
Error 0.
pg_dump: The command was: COPY ebizd.products_categories
(category_id, product_id) TO stdout;

Carol

On Sep 24, 2008, at 7:13 AM, Walter, Carol Williams wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I will try this. Is there a particular size these files need to
> be? Then I can try the pg_dumpall. That's, of course, my main
> concern. I need to get the data out.
>
> By the way, before I went to panic mode, I tried pg_dumpall and
> reindexing the database. Everything gets the same error, perhaps
> with a different file name.
>
> Carol
>
>
> Quoting Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>:
>
>> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 10:16 PM, Tena Sakai
>> <tsakai(at)gallo(dot)ucsf(dot)edu> wrote:
>>> Hi Carol,
>>>
>>> I detect in you some apprehension as to pg_dumpall
>>> won't run or complete. Why is that? Have you already
>>> done it and it didn't work? If that's not the case,
>>> why not run pg_dumpall at a quiet hour and see?
>>>
>>> I think Scott is right as to install the latest
>>> 8.2 on top. It won't be time consuming task.
>>> Why not give it a wheel? It would be good to
>>> find out one way or the other.
>>>
>>>
>>> Scott: Are files 0000 through 002F (which are
>>> not there) absolutely necessary for recovering data?
>>
>> Most likely not. If the db won't start up without them, it might be
>> possible to create new clog files that are nothing but zeroes. Never
>> been in this position though...
>>
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