Re: recovery do not finish

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Benedek Laszlo <bene33(at)freemail(dot)hu>
Cc: Pgsql General list <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: recovery do not finish
Date: 2008-07-11 20:53:08
Message-ID: 20080711205308.GK4110@alvh.no-ip.org
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Benedek Laszlo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a serious problem with a production database.
> We had a no disk space left on device problem, and postgres did not stop, so it was killed ( kill -9 )
> we made free space and reboot, but postgres not start properly.
> We have waited for more than 2 hours, but psql still says that the system is starting up.
> ( Db size is about 20 gb )
> the os is Ubuntu 4.0.3-1ubuntu5
> postgres is 8.1.4

There are known bugs in the recovery code; IIRC some of them may cause
the recovery to hang. Update to 8.1.13 and try again.

--
Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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