From: gais <gais@alpenjodel.de>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Point-In-Time Recovery not working
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 00:12:15 +0200
Message-ID: <4E581A3F.2020705@alpenjodel.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E578883020000250004076B@gw.wicourts.gov>
References: <4E57C819.1010209@alpenjodel.de>
<4E578883020000250004076B@gw.wicourts.gov>
I've tried to follow the directions as closely as possible, but still
the server won't start. I do get a different PANIC:
2011-08-26 23:55:08 CEST LOG: database system was shut down at
2011-08-26 22:08:35 CEST
2011-08-26 23:55:08 CEST LOG: starting archive recovery
2011-08-26 23:55:08 CEST LOG: restore_command = 'cp
/var/lib/postgresql/8.3/main/archive/%f %p'
cp: cannot stat `/var/lib/postgresql/8.3/main/archive/00000001.history':
No such file or directory
2011-08-26 23:55:08 CEST LOG: restored log file
"0000000100000001000000EE" from archive
2011-08-26 23:55:08 CEST LOG: unexpected pageaddr 1/EB01C000 in log
file 1, segment 238, offset 114688
2011-08-26 23:55:08 CEST LOG: invalid primary checkpoint record
2011-08-26 23:55:08 CEST LOG: restored log file
"0000000100000001000000EE" from archive
2011-08-26 23:55:08 CEST LOG: invalid xl_info in secondary checkpoint
record
2011-08-26 23:55:08 CEST PANIC: could not locate a valid checkpoint record
2011-08-26 23:55:08 CEST LOG: startup process (PID 8975) was terminated
by signal 6: Aborted
2011-08-26 23:55:08 CEST LOG: aborting startup due to startup process
failure
Somehow I think the database files I used to restore are inconsistent
with the WAL's. Is there a workaround or am I still doing something
completely foolish?
> Not based very closely on the documentation. Please read the
> "Recovering using a Continuous Archive Backup" subsection closely
> and follow the directions there. In particular, initdb is not run
> as part of the recovery. If you follow the directions step by step,
> you should get farther. If you still have problems, feel free to
> post again.
>
> -Kevin
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