Re: Hard failure, can't restart DB

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
To: David Dollar <ddollar(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Hard failure, can't restart DB
Date: 2007-05-03 13:48:32
Message-ID: 20070503134832.GC17603@svr2.hagander.net
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On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 08:37:33AM -0400, David Dollar wrote:
> We recently experienced a hard media failure. It turns out our admin guys
> have been doing backups by backing up the pgsql data directory, but not
> prepping the db first.

What platform is this?

> After a restore, when I try to start the database I get "LOG: logger
> shutting down" and nothing else. This is Postgres 8.1.3.

This sounds like you're looking at the wrong log. You have the syslogger
set up to write the log somewhere else - you need to look in that logfile.

//Magnus

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