Re: [GENERAL] Postgres Start up Error

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Adarsh Sharma <adarsh(dot)sharma(at)orkash(dot)com>wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Today I by mistake deleted all the contents of pg_log & pg_xlog directory
> and my Postgresql refuses to start due to the below error :-
>
> 2011-04-18 10:51:39 ISTLOG: database system was interrupted; last known up
> at 2011-04-18 10:06:42 IST
> 2011-04-18 10:51:39 ISTLOG: could not open file
> "pg_xlog/000000010000000600000007" (log file 6, segment 7): No such file or
> directory
> 2011-04-18 10:51:39 ISTLOG: invalid primary checkpoint record
> 2011-04-18 10:51:39 ISTLOG: could not open file
> "pg_xlog/0000000100000005000000C9" (log file 5, segment 201): No such file
> or directory
> 2011-04-18 10:51:39 ISTLOG: invalid secondary checkpoint record
> 2011-04-18 10:51:39 ISTPANIC: could not locate a valid checkpoint record
> 2011-04-18 10:51:39 ISTLOG: startup process (PID 11021) was terminated by
> signal 6: Aborted
> 2011-04-18 10:51:39 ISTLOG: aborting startup due to startup process
> failure
>
> I try to reinstall with the same previous data directory, but it fails
> again.
>
> Any suggestions to solve it without losing the previous data.
>
>
> Thanks & best Regards,
> Adarsh Sharma
>
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A quick search on message archives pointed to below link:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-admin/2000-10/msg00000.php
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-admin/2002-04/msg00013.php
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2009-03/msg00118.php

Maybe someone here can point the exact steps to be followed.

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Chetan Suttraway
EnterpriseDB <http://www.enterprisedb.com/>, The Enterprise
PostgreSQL<http://www.enterprisedb.com/>
company.