Dinesh Bhandary wrote:
> As for the nature of the corruption I still do know know what kind of
> hardware problems led to this; it happened at one of our clients site
> and we are still waiting to find out what caused it. One piece of
> info we got was postgres data directory turned into read only partition.
That can happen when a major disk-level problem occurs; system remounts
as read-only because it doesn't think it can safely write to it
anymore. I'd check into the system kernel logs as soon as possible, to
try and find a disk error that kicked the whole thing off.
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