Re: startup subprocess hangs

It seems that I have made things significantly worse. I am in the
process of restoring from last night's backup. Then I should be able to
get the data that I missed today back in.

Thanks for the help,

Andrew

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From: Anjan Dave [mailto:adave(at)vantage(dot)com]
Sent: Friday, June 17, 2005 4:45 PM
To: Andrew Janian; pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: RE: [ADMIN] startup subprocess hangs

Without any actual messages, not sure what to say in regards to whether
it is still recovering, or finished recovering successfully (from the
logs).

There are a few ways to check if the postmaster is up. A simple check is
to try a psql <dbname> and see if you're up.

Thanks,
Anjan

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From: Andrew Janian [mailto:ajanian(at)scottrade(dot)com]
Sent: Friday, June 17, 2005 4:37 PM
To: Anjan Dave; pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: RE: [ADMIN] startup subprocess hangs

Do you want me to stop the recovery to get the console messages? After
issuing the start command I did not capture the logs because I did not
notice a problem right away. Now I cannot see them anymore.

Is there anything I can do?

The database is 99GB with almost all the data in one table.

How long should the recovery process take?

Thanks,

Andrew

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From: Anjan Dave [mailto:adave(at)vantage(dot)com]
Sent: Friday, June 17, 2005 3:32 PM
To: Andrew Janian; pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: RE: [ADMIN] startup subprocess hangs

Probably some kind of a hardware issue (you lost a path to the array for
e.g.), or someone may have issued a kill -9 to postmaster?

Open another terminal and check the system log (/var/log/messages) if
you are not redirecting logs anywhere.

Can you paste the console messages on the list so people can see what
exactly might be going on?

Thanks,
Anjan

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From: Andrew Janian [mailto:ajanian(at)scottrade(dot)com]
Sent: Friday, June 17, 2005 4:21 PM
To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: [ADMIN] startup subprocess hangs

I am running Postgres 7.4.5 and I have recently run into a problem. My
database was running fine for days and then today in the middle of the
day it seems that the startup subprocess kicked in and started
recovering. I am not sure from what, and I am not sure how it started,
but nothing was allowed to connect and it has been running for quite
some time (30 minutes). The process said it was starting to recover,
but how long am I to wait?

Is there a way to get the status?

Can I just skip the recovery and get it going?

The environment is RH EL 3 2.4.21-4.ELsmp, with and EMC SAN for storage
and QLogix cards for fibre access.

Thanks,

Andrew