Re: recover corrupt DB?

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Dan Armbrust <daniel(dot)armbrust(dot)list(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Craig Ringer <craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: recover corrupt DB?
Date: 2009-05-05 19:53:30
Message-ID: 20090505195330.GU4476@alvh.no-ip.org
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Dan Armbrust escribió:

> My particular disk-full condition was on ext2. Nothing exotic. Also,
> the process that filled the disk was postgres - if that makes any
> difference - I had left a debug level turned up in the postgres config
> file, and it was logging every single db query. Since it wasn't set
> up to remove old log files - it filled the disk.
>
> Nothing else unusual occurred that I'm aware of - things went weird
> for the lab tester, he cleared some space, rebooted the system, and
> postgres didn't come back online.

Did "cleared some space" include the pg_xlog directory or something in
the vicinity?

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