Re: Starting without WAL files - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Starting without WAL files
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Msg-id 200206080224.g582O8i20594@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Starting without WAL files  (Nathan Mueller <nmueller@cs.wisc.edu>)
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Nathan Mueller wrote:
> I had a hardware error on my server and lost the WAL files.  I can
> restore my data, but because of the size of the database that'll take at
> least 12 hours.  Is there any way to start the server without the
> transaction logs?

However, once you use /contrib/pg_resetxlog, you will need to dump your
data, initdb and reload, so a restore from a backup may be more reliable.

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