Re: Postgres fails to start - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Haiming Zhang
Subject Re: Postgres fails to start
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Msg-id 1924647527694abc90f23e8826b8c309@RTS-EXCHANGE01.traffic.redflex.com.au
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In response to Re: Postgres fails to start  (Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>)
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Hi Michael,

Thank you again. It seems hard to recover, I will go the hard way (lost data). Learned a lesson.

Regards,
Haiming

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Paquier [mailto:michael.paquier@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, 7 April 2015 1:04 PM
To: Haiming Zhang
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Postgres fails to start

On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Haiming Zhang <Haiming.Zhang@redflex.com.au> wrote:
> Thank you for replying. The file was there, is that ok to remove the corrupted file to recover postgres?
"base/2008723533/2107262657.2"

Be careful here, I would recommend taking a file-level snapshot before going on and do perhaps-stupid things. As that's
abtree right split, perhaps you could recover your data by ignoring this index... 

> Unfortunately, I only have a backup on February. Is there a way I can recover it without losing the recent data?

What is lost is lost. A good backup strategy is essential.
--
Michael

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