Re: production server down

Tom Lane wrote:
> My advice is to backup the $PGDATA tree (which you said was in
> progress), then pg_resetxlog, then cross-check the hell out of the data
> you see. Only if you can detect some data problems can we guess at
> something else to do ...
>

Before running pg_resetxlog, a couple of questions:

1. Since it appears that pg_control is suspect, should I force it to be
rebuilt, and if so, how?

2. At the end of GuessControlValues is this comment:
/*
* XXX eventually, should try to grovel through old XLOG to develop
* more accurate values for startupid, nextXID, and nextOID.
*/
What would be involved in doing this, and do you think it would be
worth it?

Thanks,

Joe