Re: could not fdatasync log file: Input/output error

Thanks for your response.

We are currently running postgresql-9.4.14
I see there are some tools to check if the indexes/pages are not corrupted.
But is there a faster way to check if a PGDATA instance is clean ?

Thanks.

On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 9:18 PM Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> 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
>