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Postgres startup

From
Andy Dunlop
Date:
After using the following:

nohup postmaster -i -D /var/lib/pgsql/data >logfile 2>&1 </dev/null &


I get this in the logfile:

DEBUG:  database system shutdown was interrupted at 2005-04-11 16:09:06 SAST
DEBUG:  ReadRecord: invalid resource manager id 155 at 0/766DB9C
DEBUG:  invalid primary checkpoint record
DEBUG:  ReadRecord: invalid resource manager id 159 at 0/766DB5C
DEBUG:  invalid secondary checkpoint record
FATAL 2:  unable to locate a valid checkpoint record
DEBUG:  startup process (pid 13807) exited with exit code 2
DEBUG:  aborting startup due to startup process failure
[1]+  Exit 1                  nohup postmaster -i -D /var/lib/pgsql/data
 >logfile 2>&1 </dev/null

Is there any way to get the db running?

Thanks
Andy

Re: Postgres startup

From
Tom Lane
Date:
Andy Dunlop <andy@infocus.co.za> writes:
> DEBUG:  database system shutdown was interrupted at 2005-04-11 16:09:06 SAST
> DEBUG:  ReadRecord: invalid resource manager id 155 at 0/766DB9C
> DEBUG:  invalid primary checkpoint record
> DEBUG:  ReadRecord: invalid resource manager id 159 at 0/766DB5C
> DEBUG:  invalid secondary checkpoint record
> FATAL 2:  unable to locate a valid checkpoint record

Ugh :-(

> Is there any way to get the db running?

See pg_resetxlog, and be suitably untrusting of the consistency of your
data until you've cross-checked as much as you can.

After you get out of the woods, consider updating to some newer version
of Postgres ... we haven't emitted "FATAL 2" in quite some time ...

            regards, tom lane