From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Wells Oliver <woliver@padres.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: 8.4 process killed- what sort of recovery options do I have?
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:04:13 -0500
Message-ID: <4067.1290103453@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
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Wells Oliver <woliver@padres.com> writes:
> For whatever reason- investigations still pending- the postgres process
> froze up and I had to do a killall b/c pg_ctlcluster would not revive
> the thing. Everything seems to be in working order, but I'd like to know
> if there's any kind of consistency check I should run in light of
> events. Also, what's the best way to track down the reason for the
> crash? Just get into /var/log/postgresql and poke around?
I don't think you need to worry about your data. Crash recovery is a
well-tested aspect of Postgres ;-). As for figuring out what happened,
did you force core dumps? Stack traces from the dumps would be most
useful.
regards, tom lane
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