Re: Fatal Error during PITR Recovery

"Gnanakumar" <gnanam(at)zoniac(dot)com> writes:
> My production is running PostgreSQL v8.2.3 on CentOS release 5.2 (Final).

> As part of our routine, we just wanted to make sure and practice once in a
> while, whether PITR recovery process is performed without fail. When I
> started the recovery process, after sometime, I see the following error in
> the serverlog.

> []:2010-06-09 04:44:59 EDTLOG: could not fsync segment 0 of relation
> 1663/169462/252056: No such file or directory
> []:2010-06-09 04:44:59 EDTCONTEXT: xlog redo checkpoint: redo 13/3FE33EB0;
> undo 0/0; tli 1; xid 0/331456443; oid 256783; multi 337; offset 676; online
> []:2010-06-09 04:44:59 EDTFATAL: storage sync failed on magnetic disk: No
> such file or directory

This is probably a bug we fixed in 8.2.4:

2007-04-12 11:04 tgl

* src/backend/commands/dbcommands.c (REL8_2_STABLE): Cancel pending
fsync requests during WAL replay of DROP DATABASE, per bug report
from David Darville. Back-patch as far as 8.1, which may or may
not have the problem but it seems a safe change anyway.

You really ought to be running a less ancient minor release of PG --- 8.2.x
is up to 8.2.17. Your OS sounds a bit long in the tooth as well.

regards, tom lane