Yes, that's it! thank you! It turned out that really there was a corruption in the main pg server which was 'virally' propagated to
1. streaming replica 1. replaying wal receiver 1. old backup that tried to replay the wal's I really thought with a master and 3 backups i'd be safe. lg,k On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 5:13 PM, bricklen <brick...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 11:50 PM, Klaus Ita <kl...@worstofall.com> wrote: > >> I am trying to remember, there was a tool that plotted the contents of >> the wal_files in a more readable format ... >> > > xlogdump? > > https://github.com/snaga/xlogdump >