"Johnson, Shaunn" <SJohnson6(at)bcbsm(dot)com> writes:
> --I did the pg_resetxlog -f $PGDATA and
> --it generated a new log, but when I try to
> --restart the database, it fails. I look in the
> --logs and I see:
> [snip]
> Oct 21 01:32:13 localsvr postgres[2598]: [1] FATAL 2:
> control file context is broken
Are you sure you used the right version of pg_resetxlog? This seems to
indicate that pg_resetxlog produced a bogus pg_control file.
pg_controldata might help to identify the problem.
regards, tom lane