Re: postmaster startup failure

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>
Cc: "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: postmaster startup failure
Date: 2003-07-16 22:52:18
Message-ID: 25767.1058395938@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee> writes:
> WHen running PostgreSQL 7.3.3-1 (from rpm's) on Redhat 9.0 I got the
> following in logs and the postmaster will not start up.
> PANIC: XLogWrite: write request 0/30504000 is past end of log
> 0/30504000

This looks like you've stumbled across some sort of boundary-condition
bug in xlog.c. It must be a pretty low-probability situation since
we've not seen it before.

How large is the database in question --- would it be feasible to send
it to me (as a tar of the whole $PGDATA directory) for examination?

regards, tom lane

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