Respected All, Today on my local box, I observed crash and when I started Instance my beginning line of new pg_log's look like this.
2011-11-23 17:18:14 IST [2958]: [1-1] LOG: database system was interrupted; last known up at *2011-11-23 00:45:43 IST* 2011-11-23 17:18:14 IST [2958]: [2-1] LOG: database system was not properly shut down; automatic recovery in progress 2011-11-23 17:18:14 IST [2958]: [3-1] LOG: redo starts at 16/C260C028 2011-11-23 17:18:15 IST [2958]: [4-1] LOG: record with zero length at 16/C3609308 2011-11-23 17:18:15 IST [2958]: [5-1] LOG: redo done at 16/C36092D8 2011-11-23 17:18:15 IST [2958]: [6-1] LOG: last completed transaction was at log time 2011-11-23 00:49:21.225383+05:30 Its always there very much information in log's about the crash, and what went wrong etc., But my question is, where that crash time is recorded by Postgres, is it in any catalog or in any file ? Please assist me on this. Thanks in advance. --- Regards, Raghavendra EnterpriseDB Corporation Blog: http://raghavt.blogspot.com/