On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 11:47 PM, said assemlal <said(dot)assemlal(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Just before we restart the server today, I found only one line as:
>
> PANIC: could not fdatasync log file 000000010000017600000083: Input/output
> error
> the database system is in recovery mode
Ouch. I would not trust this host at this point, this looks like a
file system or a disk issue. Before doing anything you should stop the
database, and make a cold copy of the data folder on which you could
work on if you don't have a live backup. This wiki page is wise on the
matter:
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Corruption
--
Michael