Thread: v7.3.4 Bug Fix Release

In order to address a potentially serious (although rare) server startup
failure that was recently reported, we have just bundled up and put onto
the ftp sites v7.3.4 of PostgreSQL ...

It is a recommended upgrade, and does not require a dump/restore of your
existing databases to put into place.



Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org

The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> writes:
> In order to address a potentially serious (although rare) server startup
> failure that was recently reported, we have just bundled up and put onto
> the ftp sites v7.3.4 of PostgreSQL ...

BTW, it should be mentioned that the startup failure was introduced in
7.3.3.  If you are running 7.3.3, I recommend that you consider this an
urgent upgrade.  If you are running an older version then it is not urgent.

            regards, tom lane

Tom Lane wrote:
> The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> writes:
>
>>In order to address a potentially serious (although rare) server startup
>>failure that was recently reported, we have just bundled up and put onto
>>the ftp sites v7.3.4 of PostgreSQL ...
>
>
> BTW, it should be mentioned that the startup failure was introduced in
> 7.3.3.  If you are running 7.3.3, I recommend that you consider this an
> urgent upgrade.  If you are running an older version then it is not urgent.

Is this an example of the startup failure?


LOG:  database system shutdown was interrupted at 2003-07-27 21:46:13 EDT
LOG:  checkpoint record is at 0/52BB1FC0
LOG:  redo record is at 0/52BB1FC0; undo record is at 0/0; shutdown FALSE
LOG:  next transaction id: 1198743; next oid: 1702650
LOG:  database system was not properly shut down; automatic recovery in
progress
LOG:  ReadRecord: unexpected pageaddr 0/4DBB2000 in log file 0, segment
82, offset 12263424
LOG:  redo is not required
PANIC:  XLogWrite: write request 0/52BB2000 is past end of log 0/52BB2000
LOG:  startup process (pid 688) was terminated by signal 6
LOG:  aborting startup due to startup process failure

Joseph Shraibman wrote:

> Is this an example of the startup failure?
>
>
> LOG:  database system shutdown was interrupted at 2003-07-27 21:46:13 EDT
> LOG:  checkpoint record is at 0/52BB1FC0
> LOG:  redo record is at 0/52BB1FC0; undo record is at 0/0; shutdown FALSE
> LOG:  next transaction id: 1198743; next oid: 1702650
> LOG:  database system was not properly shut down; automatic recovery in
> progress
> LOG:  ReadRecord: unexpected pageaddr 0/4DBB2000 in log file 0, segment
> 82, offset 12263424
> LOG:  redo is not required
> PANIC:  XLogWrite: write request 0/52BB2000 is past end of log 0/52BB2000
> LOG:  startup process (pid 688) was terminated by signal 6
> LOG:  aborting startup due to startup process failure
>

In any case it started right up after I installed 7.3.4

Joseph Shraibman <jks@selectacast.net> writes:
> Is this an example of the startup failure?

> PANIC:  XLogWrite: write request 0/52BB2000 is past end of log 0/52BB2000

Yup.

You should be able to get out of the problem with pg_resetxlog.

            regards, tom lane