Re: [GENERAL] Fwd: corrupted files

2013-07-30 Thread Klaus Ita
i guess logical, caused by whatever. i really cannot say, the wal files all *look* ok, still, they lead to a situation that's a definite dead end. we did have a hard-drive failure (one in 13) at the time, but due to raid5 + hot spare no data should have been corrupted. i mean it's an lsi controller

Re: [GENERAL] Fwd: corrupted files

2013-07-30 Thread bricklen
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 8:18 AM, Klaus Ita wrote: > > 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

Re: [GENERAL] Fwd: corrupted files

2013-07-30 Thread Klaus Ita
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 T

Re: [GENERAL] Fwd: corrupted files

2013-07-30 Thread bricklen
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 11:50 PM, Klaus Ita 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

Re: [GENERAL] Fwd: corrupted files

2013-07-29 Thread Klaus Ita
Hi! Thank you, I actually tried that and it seems that only lead to even more corrupted data. I am currently trying to recover the 'hot-standby' host that is also unhappy about one of the wal_files. I am looking at the wal with less and see only data i do not care about in it (mostly session-loggi

Re: [GENERAL] Fwd: corrupted files

2013-07-29 Thread raghu ram
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 4:07 AM, Klaus Ita wrote: > Sorry for cross-posting, i read that pg-bug was not the right place for > this email > > Hi list! > > depressed me gets error messages like these: > > 2013-07-29 20:57:09 UTC ERROR: could not access > status of transaction 8393477 > 2013-07-29

[GENERAL] Fwd: corrupted files

2013-07-29 Thread Klaus Ita
Sorry for cross-posting, i read that pg-bug was not the right place for this email Hi list! depressed me gets error messages like these: 2013-07-29 20:57:09 UTC ERROR: could not access status of transaction 8393477 2013-07-29 20:57:09 UTC DETAIL: Could not open file "pg_clog/0008": No such f