Re: [GENERAL] Invalid redo in checkpoint record

2009-11-27 Thread Shakil Shaikh
From: "Craig Ringer" Before you do re-create the cluster, if the data is unimportant is there any chance you could take a copy of it so it can be examined to see what happened? PostgreSQL should recover cleanly after a hard crash, and unless there's a storage subsystem issue or fsync was off th

Re: [GENERAL] Invalid redo in checkpoint record

2009-11-26 Thread Craig Ringer
On 27/11/2009 12:50 AM, Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Shak wrote: >> Hi, >> >> After a recent server crash after which the whole system hung and power had >> to be pulled, I'm having the following error pop up when trying to start the >> DB: >> >> * Starting PostgreSQL 8.

Re: [GENERAL] Invalid redo in checkpoint record

2009-11-26 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Shak wrote: > Hi, > > After a recent server crash after which the whole system hung and power had > to be pulled, I'm having the following error pop up when trying to start the > DB: > > * Starting PostgreSQL 8.4 database server > * The PostgreSQL server failed to