Re: [GENERAL] recover in single-user backend fails

2008-09-08 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 4:34 AM, Wouter Sergeyssels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey Guys, > > Thanks for your input. Meanwhile we have recovered from a backup. > > Lesson of all this, upgrade asap to postgres 8.2? Close, but I'd change that to 8.3.3 myself. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list

Re: [GENERAL] recover in single-user backend fails

2008-09-08 Thread Wouter Sergeyssels
Hey Guys, Thanks for your input. Meanwhile we have recovered from a backup. Lesson of all this, upgrade asap to postgres 8.2? Thanks, WS. -Original Message- From: Greg Stark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gregory Stark Sent: zondag 7 september 2008 11:50 To: Tom Lane Cc: Wouter

Re: [GENERAL] recover in single-user backend fails

2008-09-07 Thread Gregory Stark
Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The only recovery strategy that I can think of in 8.1 is to blow away > your WAL with pg_resetxlog, let the database come up in a damaged > condition, and then try to extract data from it. Would it work if he rebuilt 8.1 with a "return;" as the first line

Re: [GENERAL] recover in single-user backend fails

2008-09-06 Thread Tom Lane
"Wouter Sergeyssels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When doing a recover in a single-user backend we get the following > error: > $ postgres -D /var/lib/pgsql/data/ test > PANIC: block 24929 unfound This looks like it is probably a case of a design problem that was fixed in 8.2: the WAL replay co

[GENERAL] recover in single-user backend fails

2008-09-06 Thread Wouter Sergeyssels
Hello, When doing a recover in a single-user backend we get the following error: $ postgres -D /var/lib/pgsql/data/ test PANIC: block 24929 unfound Aborted. All this was the result of an unclean postmaster shutdown while running a VACUUM in single-user backend. PGVERSION=8.1.6 DB S