Re: We are facing "PANIC: could not read from control file:Success error while starting the database.

From: Andreas Kretschmer <andreas(at)a-kretschmer(dot)de>
To: pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: We are facing "PANIC: could not read from control file:Success error while starting the database.
Date: 2018-10-04 15:50:39
Message-ID: 700ceea7-8be6-796f-9aa7-6aa7cf816de0@a-kretschmer.de
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Am 04.10.2018 um 17:29 schrieb Raghavendra Rao J S V:
> Hi All,
>
> *archive_mode *is turned *on *unfortunately in my Postgres 9.2 database.
>
> Due to that disk space is full 100%. We have removed few old xlog
> files. Now space is available.But still we are facing below problem
> when we try to start the database.
>

Don't delete WAL-files!

If you don't want the archive_mode you can set it to off (restart
required) or set archive_command to, for instance: "cd ." or
"/bin/true", that requires only a reload.
After some time (checkpoint) the files will disappear and the space
should be back.

Regards, Andreas

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