Re: Problems starting up postgres

From: Denis Perchine <dyp(at)perchine(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Problems starting up postgres
Date: 2001-09-06 14:09:07
Message-ID: 20010906111051.B807E1FD74@mx.webmailstation.com
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On Thursday 06 September 2001 20:49, Tom Lane wrote:
> Denis Perchine <dyp(at)perchine(dot)com> writes:
> Okay. As a temporary recovery measure, I'd suggest reducing that
> particular elog from STOP to DEBUG level. That will let you start up
> and run the database. You'll need to look through your tables and try
> to figure out which one(s) have lost data. It might be interesting to
> try to figure out just which page has the bad LSN value --- that might
> give us a clue why the WAL did not provide protection against this
> failure. Unfortunately XLogFlush doesn't have any idea who its caller
> is, so the only way I can think of to check that directly is to set a
> breakpoint at this error report and look at the call stack.

OK. I will do this tomorrow. I have no space, and I forced to tgz, untgz
database.

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Sincerely Yours,
Denis Perchine

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