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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Database Recovery
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 21:33:40 -0500
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Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]> writes:
> On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 04:11:17PM -0800, Harry wrote:
>> http://www.hjackson.org/blog/archives/2004/12/postgresql_data.html

> Huh, this sounds like transaction Id wraparound to me.

Given the mention of a drive glitch, I'm mentally comparing it to our
present theory about Joe Conway's recent troubles.  That is, I wonder
if he had a mistakenly-reinitialized pg_control.

Harry, are you using a Postgres start script that will automatically
run initdb if it doesn't see a valid data directory at $PGDATA?

			regards, tom lane

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