Re: Desparate: Lost WAL files

Richard Doust wrote:
> Thanks guys.
> I didn't know about this command.
> It worked like a charm.
> Like I said, I had done a clean shutdown.

If you did a clean shutdown and you lost those files you quite likely
have a very serious problem. You should investigate your hardware. Files
don't just "disappear".

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

> Thanks again.
>
> On Jul 6, 2005, at 11:51 AM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
>> Richard Doust wrote:
>>
>>> Hi.
>>> Can anyone please tell me what I can do? I've lost the contents of
>>> my pg_xlog directory and postmaster is failing to start because it
>>> can't find a valid checkpoint record. It had done a clean shutdown,
>>> so I know that the dbms should be okay if I could just restart it.
>>> I'm in a desparate situation. It's a production database.
>>>
>>
>> Well the exact error would be good just in case but you may be able
>> to use pg_resetxlog to get the machine back up. However you will have no
>> idea what state the database itself is in.
>>
>> You need to restore from backup.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Joshua D. Drake
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
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