Re: Server not Starting

Hi Shoaib,

Tried with pg_resetxlog

[postgres(at)dbarhel564 bin]$ pg_resetxlog /usr/local/pgsql/mypg/
The database server was not shut down cleanly.
Resetting the transaction log might cause data to be lost.
If you want to proceed anyway, use -f to force reset.
[postgres(at)dbarhel564 bin]$ pg_resetxlog -f /usr/local/pgsql/mypg/
Transaction log reset
[postgres(at)dbarhel564 bin]$ pg_ctl start
server starting
[postgres(at)dbarhel564 bin]$ LOG: database system was shut down at 2010-04-12
12:26:15 IST
FATAL: could not access status of transaction 889
DETAIL: Could not read from file "pg_clog/0000" at offset 0: Success.
LOG: startup process (PID 1335) exited with exit code 1
LOG: aborting startup due to startup process failure
[postgres(at)dbarhel564 bin]$

Regards
Raghavendra

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Shoaib Mir <shoaibmir(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 3:35 PM, raghavendra t <raagavendra(dot)rao(at)gmail(dot)com>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Log file
>> =====
>>
>> LOG: database system was interrupted; last known up at 2010-04-12
>> 10:53:12 IST
>> LOG: database system was not properly shut down; automatic recovery in
>> progress
>> LOG: record with zero length at 0/1A0003C8
>> LOG: redo is not required
>> FATAL: could not access status of transaction 889
>> DETAIL: Could not read from file "pg_clog/0000" at offset 0: Success.
>> LOG: startup process (PID 303) exited with exit code 1
>> LOG: aborting startup due to startup process failure
>>
>
> Try using pg_resetxlog to reset the control info on the DB cluster. Once
> you have done that try re-starting and hopefully that should work then, but
> you will I think lose everything from the last checkpoint by using
> pg_resetxlog.
>
> --
> Shoaib Mir
> http://shoaibmir.wordpress.com/
>