Hi, Postgres version = 9.1.2 OS = debian(6.0.7) fsync = on full_page_writes = on Setup = Primary and streaming replication based secondary
Few days ago we had a situation where our Primary started to through the error messages below indicating corruption in the database. It crashed sometimes and showed a panic message in the logs 2013-03-25 07:30:39.545 PDT PANIC: corrupted item pointer: offset = 0, size = 0 2013-03-25 07:30:39.704 PDT LOG: server process (PID 8715) was terminated by signal 6: Aborted 2013-03-25 07:30:39.704 PDT LOG: terminating any other active server processes Days before it started to crash it showed the below error messages in the logs. [d: u:postgres p:2498 7] ERROR: could not access status of transaction 837550133 DETAIL: Could not open file "pg_clog/031E": No such file or directory. [u:postgres p:2498 9] [d: u:radio p:31917 242] ERROR: could not open file "base/16384/114846.39" (target block 360448000): No such file or directory [d: u:radio p:31917 243] On top of that, our secondaries are now crashed and would not startup and showed the error messages below in pg logs. 2013-03-27 11:00:47.281 PDT LOG: recovery restart point at 161A/17108AA8 2013-03-27 11:00:47.281 PDT DETAIL: last completed transaction was at log time 2013-03-27 11:00:47.241236-07 2013-03-27 11:00:47.520 PDT LOG: restartpoint starting: xlog 2013-03-27 11:07:51.348 PDT FATAL: corrupted item pointer: offset = 0, size = 0 2013-03-27 11:07:51.348 PDT CONTEXT: xlog redo split_l: rel 1663/16384/115085 left 4256959, right 5861610, next 5044459, level 0, firstright 192 2013-03-27 11:07:51.716 PDT LOG: startup process (PID 5959) exited with exit code 1 2013-03-27 11:07:51.716 PDT LOG: terminating any other active server processes At this point we have a running but corrupt primary and crashed secondary that wont startup. I am wondering what are our options at this point. Can we do something to fix this? How can we recover from corruption. Thanks for help in advance. Regards Jigar
