Re: 8.4 process killed- what sort of recovery options do I have?

Wells Oliver <woliver(at)padres(dot)com> writes:
> For whatever reason- investigations still pending- the postgres process
> froze up and I had to do a killall b/c pg_ctlcluster would not revive
> the thing. Everything seems to be in working order, but I'd like to know
> if there's any kind of consistency check I should run in light of
> events. Also, what's the best way to track down the reason for the
> crash? Just get into /var/log/postgresql and poke around?

I don't think you need to worry about your data. Crash recovery is a
well-tested aspect of Postgres ;-). As for figuring out what happened,
did you force core dumps? Stack traces from the dumps would be most
useful.

regards, tom lane