Re: Where art thou pg_clog? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Where art thou pg_clog?
Date
Msg-id 200702152250.25930.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to Where art thou pg_clog?  (Casey Duncan <casey@pandora.com>)
Responses Re: Where art thou pg_clog?  (Casey Duncan <casey@pandora.com>)
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Casey Duncan wrote:
> 2007-02-15 00:35:03.324 PST ERROR:  could not access status of
> transaction 2565134864
> 2007-02-15 00:35:03.325 PST DETAIL:  could not open file "pg_clog/
> 098E": No such file or directory
>
> The first time this happened, I chalked it up to some kind of disk
> corruption based on the mailing list archives. So I dumped the
> databases, did a fresh initdb, forced an fsck (these run with a jfs
> data partition and an ext2 wal partition) which found no problems and
> then reloaded the databases.
>
> Now about a week later

Unless you actually executed 2565134864 transactions in that one week,
this is still data corruption.

Check for faulty memory.

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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