Re: Desparate: Lost WAL files

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