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

From: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: raghavendrajsv(at)gmail(dot)com
Cc: "pgsql-generallists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <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: 2018-10-05 01:35:39
Message-ID: CAEepm=0hAOGjqMFQC_-irpoh02Kg4PRRSVp1CE2p-Y_DgS_BrA@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 4:29 AM Raghavendra Rao J S V
<raghavendrajsv(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> PANIC: could not read from control file:Success

That means that the pg_control file is the wrong size. What size is
it? What filesystem is this, that allowed an out-of-space condition
to result in a file being truncated? Normally we only overwrite that
file, so after creation it should stay the same size.

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Thomas Munro
http://www.enterprisedb.com

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