| From: | Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at> |
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| To: | loganathan P <plogandba(at)gmail(dot)com>, Justin <zzzzz(dot)graf(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
| Cc: | Oli Sennhauser <oli(dot)sennhauser(at)fromdual(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: PostgreSQL Service Unable to Start After Archive Log delete |
| Date: | 2026-09-10 21:21:48 |
| Message-ID: | 646373198c53bc02e47ece9836494acf0b0caa04.camel@cybertec.at |
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On Fri, 2026-09-11 at 01:59 +0530, loganathan P wrote:
> As per the provided link, the pg_resetwal command was executed successfully, and the services
> have been started. However, a rollback transaction error is appearing in the Tomcat catalina.out logs.
That's because pg_resetwal has the side effect of corrupting your database.
It is *not* a tool to fix database corruption.
It is a tool to get a corrupted server to somehow start so that you can
more easily salvage those data that can be salvaged.
Restore your backup.
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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