We restore the database on the backup host and it's starting. I've append the mainlog.
If we dump or reindex the database we get "could not access status of transaction NNNNNN" errors. PG tries to access old clog files: "pg_clog/00CD". But in the pg_clog directory the files start at "00E6" and end at "0198". I've append the pg_controldata output. This clog files doesn't exist on the original database neither.
I could create empty clog files, but it seems that our database is in an inconsistent state? Any suggestions are welcome.
There is a commit log corruption in your database. You need to make the files with right size (256K of zeroes).A suitable "dd" from /dev/zero will accomplish this on modernUnixen (ie, anything that has /dev/zero). Filling of those files with zeroes nothing but " all those old transactions are aborted".
The safest way to resolve the issue by using the below command:-
dd if=/dev/zero of=Transaction_missing_file_of pg_clog bs=256K count=1 (To make the uncommitted record as they haven't been committed).
