Re: psql: FATAL: the database system is starting up

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: valiouk(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)uk
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: psql: FATAL: the database system is starting up
Date: 2008-06-30 23:37:29
Message-ID: 19584.1214869049@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Valentin Bogdanov <valiouk(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)uk> writes:
> I run out of disk space on the box and had to delete some files and restart postgres. Ever since I have been getting the above message. PS shows this process:
> 9351 ? D 0:04 postgres: startup process
> Running an strace on this process shows that it is trying to write 8K of zeros to a file called 023D in pg_clog but fails at 224K and it just keeps trying forever.

What PG version is this, exactly? What files did you delete (any of
Postgres' files)?

regards, tom lane

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