Received: from localhost (maia-4.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E8309FB5B8 for ; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 13:03:11 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 50345-09 for ; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 13:03:00 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from oxford.xeocode.com (unknown [62.232.55.118]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D5C29FB7E1 for ; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 13:03:00 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=oxford.xeocode.com) by oxford.xeocode.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1I2r1h-0001Ov-W5; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:02:54 +0100 From: Gregory Stark To: "Dan Gorman" Cc: "Simon Riggs" , "Koichi Suzuki" , "Toru SHIMOGAKI" , "Tom Lane" , Subject: Re: PITR Backups In-Reply-To: (Dan Gorman's message of "Mon, 25 Jun 2007 08:28:51 -0700") Organization: EnterpriseDB References: <7E0807EE-B970-4869-A248-B838E42AD9EE@hi5.com> <9761.1182472005@sss.pgh.pa.us> <467B3459.9030808@oss.ntt.co.jp> <1182509748.9276.178.camel@silverbirch.site> <467F938F.1030708@oss.ntt.co.jp> <1182777963.9276.582.camel@silverbirch.site> X-Draft-From: ("nnimap+mail01.enterprisedb.com:INBOX.performance" 1312) Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:02:53 +0100 Message-ID: <87bqf4uimq.fsf@oxford.xeocode.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200706/574 X-Sequence-Number: 25607 "Dan Gorman" writes: > I took several snapshots. In all cases the FS was fine. In one case the db > looked like on recovery it thought there were outstanding pages to be written > to disk as seen below and the db wouldn't start. > > Jun 21 00:39:43 sfmedstorageha001 postgres[3506]: [9-1] 2007-06-21 00:39:43 > PDTLOG: redo done at 71/99870670 > Jun 21 00:39:43 sfmedstorageha001 postgres[3506]: [10-1] 2007-06-21 00:39:43 > PDTWARNING: page 28905 of relation 1663/16384/76718 was uninitialized What version of Postgres did you say this was? -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com