Re: psql: FATAL: the database system is starting up

Try using the fast shutdown switch with pg_ctl i.e. -mf, that might help.

Thanks,
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Shoaib Mir
EnterpriseDB (www.enterprisedb.com)

On 9/21/06, Mr. Dan <bitsandbytes88(at)hotmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> We had to kill postmaster, and it's been ugly. The last backup finished
> successfully not last night, but the night before. This is 161 GB
> database.
> How long should I expect this to take before it starts. Developers
> are
> coming into my office every 5 minutes asking for updates. It's never
> taken
> this long to come back. We did have an awful lot of transactions last
> night. Is the server replaying everything
>
> fhttp://by116fd.bay116.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/compose?&curmbox=00000000%2d0000%2d0000%2d0000%2d000000000001&a=3b0ef010ec78a7ca825dcdc7953aaf4c22ff15917d66f2ef8a3ddf1fd5dbd659#
> Sendrom the last succesful backup? Is it hanging because it can't find
> some WAL files that were archived? It's been an hour and a half so far.
> Would a reboot help?
>
> ~DjK
>
>
>
>
>
> ep 21 10:07:05 p postgres[28301]: [2-3] recovery.
> Sep 21 10:07:05 p postgres[28301]: [3-1] < % %2006-09-21 10:07:05 EDT>LOG:
> checkpoint record is at 14D/69FFBD8
> Sep 21 10:07:05 p postgres[28301]: [4-1] < % %2006-09-21 10:07:05 EDT>LOG:
> redo record is at 14D/696AC20; undo record is at 0/0; shutdown FALSE
> Sep 21 10:07:05 p postgres[28301]: [5-1] < % %2006-09-21 10:07:05 EDT>LOG:
> next transaction ID: 39405490; next OID: 1799955
> Sep 21 10:07:05 p postgres[28301]: [6-1] < % %2006-09-21 10:07:05 EDT>LOG:
> next MultiXactId: 5696; next MultiXactOffset: 11694
> Sep 21 10:07:05 p postgres[28301]: [7-1] < % %2006-09-21 10:07:05 EDT>LOG:
> database system was not properly shut down; automatic recovery in progress
> Sep 21 10:07:05 p postgres[28301]: [8-1] < % %2006-09-21 10:07:05 EDT>LOG:
> redo starts at 14D/696AC20
> Sep 21 10:07:20 p postgres[28305]: [2-1] <[unknown] %[unknown] %2006-09-21
> 10:07:20 EDT>LOG: invalid length of startup packet
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