Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-5.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E81611335BA8 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:37:55 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 14399-09 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:37:49 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from momjian.us (momjian.us [70.90.9.53]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F7D41337B50 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:37:48 -0300 (ADT) Received: (from bruce@localhost) by momjian.us (8.11.6/8.11.6) id o8KGblT29400; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 12:37:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Bruce Momjian Message-Id: <201009201637.o8KGblT29400@momjian.us> Subject: Re: files under pg_clog directories are missing In-Reply-To: <4C9785B6.6030506@iii.com> To: dbhandary@iii.com Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 12:37:47 -0400 (EDT) CC: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL124 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.91 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201009/120 X-Sequence-Number: 35664 Dinesh Bhandary wrote: > Good reminder to backup before you start. Yes, I've made the backup of > the db in its current state. > > After reading your posts and doing a slew of research I am inclining > more towards restoring from the last successful dump and reload data > from applications (it seems like it is going to be partial recovery). I > am concerned that even if we are able to clear all those messages by > whatever means the state of the database will be corrupted. Luckily this True. -- Bruce Momjian http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. +