From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Lori, Giancarlo <giancarlo.lori@eds.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Need help to restore database
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:18:50 -0400
Message-ID: <20090317131850.GB4202@alvh.no-ip.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <556F27B79E1523449D310FCABD94333001958C10@derum205.emea.corp.eds.com>
References: <556F27B79E1523449D310FCABD94333001958C10@derum205.emea.corp.eds.com>
Lori, Giancarlo wrote:
> A client system based on pgsql is down because the database raise an
> error message like " no left space on device". We have deleted some log
> files on this machine and after a system restart the db (and the system)
> was up&running. After two days the database has crashed again. Looking
> the postgres log there was an error on xlog file (I have inspected the
> directory pg_xlog and no files I found it). I'll try to re-build the
> xlog file with pg_resetxlog. The utilities has created a new xlog file,
> the postmaster process run, but any command pg_dump, etc I try to
> execute failed. The system respond that there are not database in the
> system.
Looks like somebody deleted critical files to get some space back.
> Can anyone help us ?
Find the most recent backup ...
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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