Re: [HACKERS] CRITICAL HELP NEEDED! DEAD DB!

2004-09-26 Thread Matthew T. O'Connor
For starters a little more detail would be helpful, for example: What version of PostgreSQL? What OS? What compiler? What happened that caused this? Server Crash? Matthew Cott Lang wrote: Sep 24 10:22:37 snafu postgres[18306]: [2-1] LOG: database system was interrupted while in recovery at 200

Re: [HACKERS] CRITICAL HELP NEEDED! DEAD DB!

2004-09-24 Thread Joe Conway
Cott Lang wrote: I wish I knew - this is what appeared to start it: Sep 24 10:19:41 snafu postgres[18176]: [464-1] ERROR: could not open segment 1 of relation "idx_ordl_id" (target block 1719234412): No such file or Sep 24 10:19:41 snafu postgres[18176]: [464-2] directory I can't figure out what

Re: [HACKERS] CRITICAL HELP NEEDED! DEAD DB!

2004-09-24 Thread Cott Lang
Does pgfsck work on 7.4.x? > > Otherwise, maybe something here will help: > http://svana.org/kleptog/pgsql/pgfsck.html > > ---(end of broadcast)--- > TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your > joining colum

Re: [HACKERS] CRITICAL HELP NEEDED! DEAD DB!

2004-09-24 Thread Cott Lang
On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 11:43, Tom Lane wrote: > > I think your only chance is pg_resetxlog. Be aware that you won't > necessarily have a consistent database afterwards --- in particular, > whichever index that failure is about is certainly broken. I'd > recommend a dump and reload, plus as much m

Re: [HACKERS] CRITICAL HELP NEEDED! DEAD DB!

2004-09-24 Thread Tom Lane
Cott Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sep 24 10:22:37 snafu postgres[18306]: [2-1] LOG: database system was > interrupted while in recovery at 2004-09-24 10:21:41 MST > Sep 24 10:22:37 snafu postgres[18306]: [2-2] HINT: This probably means > that some data is corrupted and you will have to use

Re: [HACKERS] CRITICAL HELP NEEDED! DEAD DB!

2004-09-24 Thread Dann Corbit
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cott Lang > Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 10:21 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [HACKERS] CRITICAL HELP NEEDED! DEAD DB! > > > Sep 24 10:22:37 snafu postgres[1

[HACKERS] CRITICAL HELP NEEDED! DEAD DB!

2004-09-24 Thread Cott Lang
Sep 24 10:22:37 snafu postgres[18306]: [2-1] LOG: database system was interrupted while in recovery at 2004-09-24 10:21:41 MST Sep 24 10:22:37 snafu postgres[18306]: [2-2] HINT: This probably means that some data is corrupted and you will have to use the last backup for recovery. Sep 24 10:22:37