Problem with starting PostgreSQL server 7.4.19 - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Kakoli Sen
Subject Problem with starting PostgreSQL server 7.4.19
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Msg-id IAEGJAMPJBBOGKLOGJADEEGACCAA.kakolis@cdacb.ernet.in
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Responses Re: Problem with starting PostgreSQL server 7.4.19  (Craig Ringer <craig@postnewspapers.com.au>)
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Hello all,
        It was running fine initially and the database was lying idle for a few days. Today I looged into the machine and restarted the server by killing the process by 'kill -9 pid'. And then restarted it by 'postmaster -i -D /opt/pgsql/data/'.
Then it gives the following error on stdout :

LOG:  database system was interrupted at 2008-03-06 14:15:17 IST
LOG:  record with incorrect prev-link 1/0 at 0/A4EB08
LOG:  invalid primary checkpoint record
LOG:  record with incorrect prev-link 42FD/0 at 0/A4EAC8
LOG:  invalid secondary checkpoint record
PANIC:  could not locate a valid checkpoint record
LOG:  startup process (PID 3388) was terminated by signal 6
LOG:  aborting startup due to startup process failure

What is the problem? It was running fine all this time.

I have to use an older version for it to be used with another software. So changing versions is not feasible.

Thanks & Regards,

Kakoli
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