Re: server crash

"Medora Schauer" <mschauer(at)fairfield(dot)com> writes:
> PG: 7.3

I hope you meant "7.3.8", or at least something later than original 7.3 ;-)

> PANIC: link from /data/database/pg_xlog/00000001000000D9 to /data/database/pg_xlog/00000001000000E1 (initialization of log file 1, segment 225) failed: No such file or directory

AFAICS, the only way that that message could come out is if
a readdir() scan of /data/database/pg_xlog found a file named
00000001000000D9 but then an immediately following link() call
didn't find it. This suggests filesystem corruption to me;
it might be worth running fsck. Also check whether your kernel
is reasonably up to date, as it could be a kernel bug.

The fact that the subsequent startup process failed again in just the
same way seems to eliminate most of the theories that would suggest
it's a Postgres bug. In particular, it isn't a race condition such as
two processes trying to delete the same file at the same time, because
the recovery startup sequence does no parallel processing.

regards, tom lane