Re: Postgres will not start due to corrupt index

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Robert Sosinski <rsosinski(at)ticketevolution(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, Spike Grobstein <spike(at)ticketevolution(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Postgres will not start due to corrupt index
Date: 2012-10-03 15:43:50
Message-ID: 5957.1349279030@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Robert Sosinski <rsosinski(at)ticketevolution(dot)com> writes:
> We are running Postgres 9.1.3, and after stopping it by physically shutting off the machine, we rebooted and now get this error whenever we try to start it.
> 2012-10-02 13:54:30 PDT PANIC: GIN metapage disappeared

This looks like an issue that was fixed in 9.1.4. Update and it should
start successfully (assuming your machine does fsyncs correctly;
otherwise you might have some actual data corruption there ...)

regards, tom lane

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