Re: Postgres Server crashed

From: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
To: "Scott Marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "Akash Kodibail" <akash(dot)kodibail(at)onmobile(dot)com>, "pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Postgres Server crashed
Date: 2011-10-10 19:02:54
Message-ID: 4E92FB0E0200002500041CE9@gw.wicourts.gov
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Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> wrote:
>
>> And normal maintenance may be viewing newer data as old, due to
>> transaction wrap-around from the old pg_control file, and
>> removing it as part of normal cleanup. So you may have destroyed
>> some of your more recent data by doing that.
>
> At this point, once you have a backup, would you deploy
> pg_resetxlog?

That's what I was thinking. I shudder to think what autovacuum may
have done while running with the old pg_control file; but I don't
know what else to do at this juncture.

Anyone else have a better idea?

-Kevin

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