On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Florian Pflug <f...@phlo.org> wrote:
>> Chris' clog error was caused by a file read error. The file was >> opened, we did a seek within the file and then the call to read() >> failed to return a complete page from the file. >> >> The xid shown is 22811359, which is the nextxid in the control file. >> >> So StartupClog() must have failed trying to read the clog page from disk. > > Yep. > >> That isn't a Hot Standby problem, a recovery problem nor is it certain >> its a PostgreSQL problem. > > It's very likely that it's a PostgreSQL problem, though. It's probably > not a pilot error since it happens even for backups taken with > pg_basebackup(), > so the only explanation other than a PostgreSQL bug is broken hardware or > a pretty serious kernel/filesystem bug. The way forwards here is for someone to show the clog file that causes the error and find out why the call to read() fails. -- Simon Riggs http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers