xlog flush request not satisfied after server reboot - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

<div class="Section1"><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">Hackers,</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
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font-family:Arial"> </span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">I had a server reboot for an unknown reason, after the server restarted one of the disks was not
mountedbefore Postgresql tried to start.  The startup failed (see log below), after I mounted the disks and tried to
startPostgresql again there was a HINT about corrupted data and a WARNING about invalid page headers.  The warning
didn’ttell me which database had the invalid page, so I decided to vacuum full all of the databases to see if I
receivedan error which I did (see below).  The database with the error is the largest ~300GB, I do have a backup if
necessary,is there away to recover without doing a restore?</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"
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font-family:Arial"> </span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">Thanks for your help</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
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font-family:Arial">Jim</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial"> </span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial"> </span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">startup with tablespace not mounted</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"
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font-family:Arial">LOG:  database system was interrupted at 2006-12-14 19:51:26 EST</span></font><p
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font-family:Arial">LOG:  checkpoint record is at 1F1/52C8A704</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"
size="2"><spanstyle="font-size:10.0pt; 
font-family:Arial">LOG:  redo record is at 1F1/5291F0A0; undo record is at 0/0; shutdown FALSE</span></font><p
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font-family:Arial">LOG:  next transaction ID: 13019683; next OID: 4167831</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font
face="Arial"size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; 
font-family:Arial">LOG:  next MultiXactId: 1; next MultiXactOffset: 0</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font
face="Arial"size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; 
font-family:Arial">LOG:  database system was not properly shut down; automatic recovery in progress</span></font><p
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font-family:Arial">LOG:  redo starts at 1F1/5291F0A0</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"
size="2"><spanstyle="font-size:10.0pt; 
font-family:Arial">PANIC:  could not create directory "pg_tblspc/3717272": File exists</span></font><p
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font-family:Arial">LOG:  startup process (PID 4987) was terminated by signal 6</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font
face="Arial"size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; 
font-family:Arial">LOG:  aborting startup due to startup process failure</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font
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font-family:Arial">LOG:  logger shutting down</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial"> </span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">startup after tablespace was mounted</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"
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font-family:Arial">LOG:  database system was interrupted while in recovery at 2006-12-15 08:04:48 E</span></font><p
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font-family:Arial">ST</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">HINT:  This probably means that some data is corrupted and you will have to use</span></font><p
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font-family:Arial">the last backup for recovery.</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">LOG:  checkpoint record is at 1F1/52C8A704</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"
size="2"><spanstyle="font-size:10.0pt; 
font-family:Arial">LOG:  redo record is at 1F1/5291F0A0; undo record is at 0/0; shutdown FALSE</span></font><p
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font-family:Arial">LOG:  next transaction ID: 13019683; next OID: 4167831</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font
face="Arial"size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; 
font-family:Arial">LOG:  next MultiXactId: 1; next MultiXactOffset: 0</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font
face="Arial"size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; 
font-family:Arial">LOG:  database system was not properly shut down; automatic recovery in progress</span></font><p
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font-family:Arial">LOG:  redo starts at 1F1/5291F0A0</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"
size="2"><spanstyle="font-size:10.0pt; 
font-family:Arial">WARNING:  invalid page header in block 6196744 of relation "4158697"; zeroing ou</span></font><p
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font-family:Arial">t page</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">LOG:  connection received: host=s20a.contactbda.com port=1667</span></font><p
class="MsoNormal"><fontface="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; 
font-family:Arial">FATAL:  the database system is starting up</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"
size="2"><spanstyle="font-size:10.0pt; 
font-family:Arial">WARNING:  invalid page header in block 6196934 of relation "4158697"; zeroing ou</span></font><p
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font-family:Arial">t page</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">LOG:  record with zero length at 1F1/572B792C</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"
size="2"><spanstyle="font-size:10.0pt; 
font-family:Arial">LOG:  redo done at 1F1/572B5BD0</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">LOG:  database system is ready</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
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font-family:Arial"> </span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial"> </span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">Error message from vacuum</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
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font-family:Arial">ERROR:  xlog flush request 1F6/3A0F605C is not satisfied --- flushed only to 1F1</span></font><p
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font-family:Arial">/57CD76FC</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
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font-family:Arial">CONTEXT:  writing block 3387032 of relation 3717272/4158444/4158627</span></font><p
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font-family:Arial">_____________________________________________<br /> Jim Buttafuoco</span></font><p
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