--- On Tue, 12/5/09, Markus Wollny <markus.wol...@computec.de> wrote:
> From: Markus Wollny <markus.wol...@computec.de> > Subject: AW: [GENERAL] Could not open file "pg_clog/...." > To: glynast...@yahoo.co.uk, pgsql-general@postgresql.org > Date: Tuesday, 12 May, 2009, 11:52 AM > Hi! > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > > Von: Glyn Astill [mailto:glynast...@yahoo.co.uk] > > Gesendet: Dienstag, 12. Mai 2009 12:33 > > An: pgsql-general@postgresql.org; Markus Wollny > > > The first thing I would have done if I've been > forced to do > > that (if there was no other option?) would be a dump / > > > restore directly afterwards, then pick through for any > > > inconsistencies. > > That's a lot of data - somewhere around 43GB at the > moment. And pg_dump seems to fail altogether on the affected > databases, so the pg_clog issue actually means that I cannot > make any current backups. > > > Probably wait for the big-wigs to reply but perhaps a > reindex > > may get you going. > > Tried that, but it also makes PostgreSQL crash, so no luck > there either. I also dropped template0, recreated it from > template1, did a VACUUM FREEZE on it, marked it as template > again and disallowed connections. > > > I'd definately be starting with a fresh database > once I got > > out of the whole though... > > Yes, but that'll be a nightshift and I need some way to > actually get at a working dump now... > It appears to be failing on the pcaction.article table. Could you get away without that? Perhaps, and it'd be a longshot, you'd be able to dump the rest of the data with it gone? I'm going to duck out of this now though, and I think you should probably wait until someone a little more knowlegable replies. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
