Re: postgres crash SOS - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Merlin Moncure
Subject Re: postgres crash SOS
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Msg-id AANLkTinmZ_hDG6wXy37iP9VfiFRZNDaagHYntmJ61ZeE@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: postgres crash SOS  (Felde Norbert <fenor77@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: postgres crash SOS  (Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>)
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On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 4:47 AM, Felde Norbert <fenor77@gmail.com> wrote:
> Before I began I made a filesystem level backup after I stopped the
> postgres service.
> I have the original 0003 file, the size is 204800, The size of the
> other files in this dir is 262144.

hm...any indication of why the file is small? run out of space?
filesystem/os issues?

try appending hex 0x55 to the end of the file until it's the right
length and starting up the database. disable everything (don't vacuum)
and immediately try to pull off a dump.

what's the last good backup you have?

merlin

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