Re: Missing data frrom a shutdown

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Jorge Sauma <jsauma(at)its(dot)co(dot)cr>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Missing data frrom a shutdown
Date: 2002-11-16 03:03:32
Message-ID: 200211160303.gAG33WR22268@candle.pha.pa.us
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This is very unusual. Were you running with fsync off? I can't imagine
what would cause this. What version are you running. As a guess, try
dropping and recreating the index on the table and see if the data
reappears.

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Jorge Sauma wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> Yesterday we suffered a power cut in our office, so the postgresql
> server dies (the UPS didn't function properly). When the power was
> restablished the service started Ok, but we realize we have lost the
> records from the last hour. We hope this records are in the logs
> (pg_xlog or pg_clog) and we want to know if there's any way to recover
> this data.
> In the documentation we have found that this recovery is performed
> automatically, but this didn't happen.
> Thanks in advance for any help
>
> Best regards,
>
> PAviles
>
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