Re: DB failure?

Time to test your memory and harddisk....

On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 12:24:53AM -0500, Wes wrote:
> On 8/30/04 11:07 PM, "Wes Palmer" <wespvp(at)syntegra(dot)com> wrote:
>
> > db=> select count(*) from messages;
> > ERROR: could not access status of transaction 859000513
> > DETAIL: could not open file "/db/pgsql/data/pg_clog/0333": No such file or
> > directory
> >
> > db=> select count(*) from message_recipients;
> > ERROR: invalid page header in block 1238604 of relation
> > "message_recipients"
>
> Uh, oh.. This would appear to be a big problem... I just tried to do a
> pg_dumpall. The server SEGV'd around a Gig into the pg_dumpall:
>
> LOG: server process (PID 12541) was terminated by signal 11
> LOG: terminating any other active server processes
> WARNING: terminating connection because of crash of another server process
> DETAIL: The postmaster has commanded this server process to roll back the
> current transaction and exit, because another server process exited
> abnormally and possibly corrupted shared memory.
> HINT: In a moment you should be able to reconnect to the database and
> repeat your command.
> LOG: all server processes terminated; reinitializing
> LOG: database system was interrupted at 2004-08-31 07:13:31 MEST
> LOG: checkpoint record is at 6E/13A916C
> LOG: redo record is at 6E/13A916C; undo record is at 0/0; shutdown FALSE
> LOG: next transaction ID: 173895; next OID: 243689524
> LOG: database system was not properly shut down; automatic recovery in
> progress
> LOG: record with zero length at 6E/13A91AC
> LOG: redo is not required
> LOG: recycled transaction log file "0000006E00000000"
> LOG: database system is ready
>
>
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