Re: Missing pg_clog files

Hi, Tena,

Yes, you do recall correctly. It is Solaris 10 and Postgres 8.2.3.

I'm going to run a pg_dumpall and keep my fingers crossed. I'm
getting similar errors when I try to do other things like vacuumdb,
so maybe pg_dumpall won't run either.

Carol
On Sep 23, 2008, at 6:13 PM, Tena Sakai wrote:

> Hi Carol,
>
> I don't have answer...
>
> I have had a similar problem and whatever I
> did didn't work. As I recall, the files in
> pg_clog directory started from 0000 and the
> number got bigger by 1 (hex) and there was
> a gap between the most recent one and the
> second recent one. (Is that how you know
> that you are missing about 30 files?) I
> suspect the reason why it didn't work for me
> was because the last file was incomplete. I
> wound up upgrading to the latest postgres and
> restored from a backup file I made by pg_dumpall.
> My platform is linux (do I recall yours is solaris?)
> and the postgres version I was running was 8.3.0.
>
> The lesson I learned was to keep an eye on the
> pg_clog directory. Since the installation of
> 8.3.3 there has been only one file (0000), though
> the size keeps growing (I think by 8k bytes).
>
> My two bits.
>
> Tena Sakai
> tsakai(at)gallo(dot)ucsf(dot)edu
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: [ADMIN] Missing pg_clog files
>
> I'm missing about 30 pg_clog files. How do I recover from this?
>
> Carol
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