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Andrew Sukow wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Our postgres system crashed and upon restarting it our database had the following errors. The error log was 4.5 gigs
whichis much larger than usual. We looked online for information about lost left siblings and how to fix the data and
notlose the 400 million records we have. Anyone have an idea what's the matter and what the fix is?
>
> LOG: database system was interrupted while in recovery at 2004-08-17 08:59:41 PDT
> HINT: This probably means that some data is corrupted and you will have to use the last backup for recovery.
> LOG: checkpoint record is at 326/C007B778
> LOG: redo record is at 326/BD899570; undo record is at 0/0; shutdown FALSE
> LOG: next transaction ID: 46922114; next OID: 133662911
> LOG: database system was not properly shut down; automatic recovery in progress
> LOG: redo starts at 326/BD899570
> PANIC: btree_split_redo: lost left sibling
> LOG: startup process (PID 9038) was terminated by signal 6
> LOG: aborting startup due to startup process failure
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrew
>
>
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