On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 08:37:33AM -0400, David Dollar wrote:
> We recently experienced a hard media failure. It turns out our admin guys
> have been doing backups by backing up the pgsql data directory, but not
> prepping the db first.
What platform is this?
> After a restore, when I try to start the database I get "LOG: logger
> shutting down" and nothing else. This is Postgres 8.1.3.
This sounds like you're looking at the wrong log. You have the syslogger
set up to write the log somewhere else - you need to look in that logfile.
//Magnus
