> > I have a database that refuses to start due to the
> afformentioned error. I am running POstgreSQL 8.1.11 on a
> Debian Etch box.
>
> > Jan 5 10:36:29 db2 postgres[17111]: [11-1] PANIC:
> failed to re-find parent key in "100924" for split
> pages 1606/1673
>
> Is this database sufficiently small and non-proprietary
> that you could
> send me a filesystem copy of it (a tarball of all of
> $PGDATA including
> the WAL files)?
>
I solved my problem by reseting the next transaction ID with the pg_resetxlog utility.
Sorry I cannot send you the database since it is proprietary and is also quiet big, but if there is anything else I can do just let me know.
thanks,
val