Re: Desparate: Lost WAL files

Richard Doust wrote:
> Well, actually, (he said sheepishly) I deleted the WAL files myself. A
> bit of stupidity.

Doh! In the future it would probably be wise to *not* do that ;)

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

>
> On Jul 6, 2005, at 12:03 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
>> 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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