Re: Urgent Help required

Hmm would this be a bad time to ask for PostGres 1.0 support?

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 11:26 +0100, Neha Patel wrote:
>> We are running with postgres sql 7.3.2. We were trying to create an
>> index on a big table. The create index command ran for nearly 5 hours
>> at which point we decided to interrupt it. Since this was interrupted,
>> any operations attempted on the table on which the index was being
>> created gives following error in pgsql log:
>
>> LOG: all server processes terminated; reinitializing shared memory and
>> semaphor
>
> 1. Shut down postgresql and make a full filesystem copy of the PGDATA
> directory. This will ensure that anything else you do won't leave you in
> a worse position.
>
> 2. Upgrade to the latest version of postgresql 7.3, which is 7.3.21
>
> 3. Start up again
>
> 4. Try to fix the problem:
>  a. see if there are any indexes on the table
>  b. if so, drop them
>  c. try to get a good logical backup using pg_dump. You may want to
> disable index scans by using "SET enable_indexscan = f;".
>  d. If that doesn't work, you may have catalog corruption. Examine the
> catalogs (documented here:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.3/static/catalogs.html ), and look
> entries related to your table in pg_class and pg_index, and see if
> anything looks wrong.
>  e. start from a fresh install and restore using the logical backup
>
> 5. Upgrade all data to a recent version of postgresql. You're on a
> really ancient version that has fallen out of official support. This may
> require several upgrade steps, but you should get upgraded to 8.3.8 or
> 8.4.1. A lot of bugs have been fixed, and as long as you are on 7.3, you
> will still be at serious risk.
>
> Regards,
>        Jeff Davis
>
>
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