Re: jumpstart - pgsql.v824

dx k9 <bitsandbytes88(at)hotmail(dot)com> writes:
> Is there any way to trick an instance into starting when you just have base, global, pg_clog, pg_mulitxact, pg_subtrans, pg_tblspc, & pg_twophase, but no pg_xlog?

pg_resetxlog would probably be enough to get it to start, but the odds
of having a non-corrupt database afterwards don't seem very good.

> We weren't backing up the pg_xlog, because we didn't think we needed it, but the backup_label seems to need it. Even if we take the backup_label file out, and try to start postgres, it doesn't start.

Have you read the manual's chapter on backup/restore? There are several
documented ways to do things successfully, but inventing your own is not
likely to work.

regards, tom lane