Re: clog problem

Bob Parkinson <rwp(at)biome(dot)ac(dot)uk> writes:
> FATAL 2: open of /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_clog/02B6 failed: No such file
> or directory

The direct cause of this problem is a tuple containing a bogus
transaction ID number (evidently 0x2B6xxxxx for some xxxxx, which I
assume is not close to your really active transaction numbers --- what
filenames do exist in $PGDATA/pg_clog?).

The next question of course is how did it get that way? It's possible
that this is a symptom of hardware problems, or there could be a
software bug we need to identify and fix. But that would take a lot
more info than we have.

If you want to dig into it, the next step would be to identify where the
bad tuple is and then use pg_filedump or something similar to have a
look at the raw data.

If you just want to get rid of the bad data as expeditiously as
possible, I'd suggest (a) make a file 256K long containing all zeroes,
(b) temporarily install it as $PGDATA/pg_clog/02B6, (c) run VACUUM;
(d) remove the bogus 02B6 file again. However this will probably ruin
any chance of deducing what went wrong afterwards...

regards, tom lane