> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Kings-Lynne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 12:29 PM
> To: PostgreSQL-development
> Cc: Tom Lane
> Subject: [HACKERS] Disaster!
> 
> 
> We ran out of disk space on our main server, and now I've freed up 
> space, we cannot start postgres!
> 
> Jan 23 12:18:50 canaveral postgres[563]: [2-1] LOG:  
> checkpoint record 
> is at 2/96500B94
> Jan 23 12:18:50 canaveral postgres[563]: [3-1] LOG:  redo 
> record is at 
> 2/964BD23C; undo record is at 0/0; shutdown FALSE
> Jan 23 12:18:50 canaveral postgres[563]: [4-1] LOG:  next transaction 
> ID: 14216463; next OID: 4732327
> Jan 23 12:18:50 canaveral postgres[563]: [5-1] LOG:  database 
> system was 
> not properly shut down; automatic recovery in progress
> Jan 23 12:18:50 canaveral postgres[563]: [6-1] LOG:  redo starts at 
> 2/964BD23C
> Jan 23 12:18:51 canaveral postgres[563]: [7-1] PANIC:  could 
> not access 
> status of transaction 14286850
> Jan 23 12:18:51 canaveral postgres[563]: [7-2] DETAIL:  could 
> not read 
> from file "/usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_clog/000D" at offset 163840: 
> Undefined error: 0
> Jan 23 12:18:51 canaveral postgres[567]: [1-1] FATAL:  the database 
> system is starting up
> Jan 23 12:18:52 canaveral postgres[558]: [1-1] LOG:  startup process 
> (PID 563) was terminated by signal 6
> Jan 23 12:18:52 canaveral postgres[558]: [2-1] LOG:  aborting startup 
> due to startup process failure
> 
> What can I do?

I would restore from backup.  Just start an empty database on another
machine.

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