Richard Doust wrote: > Hi. > Can anyone please tell me what I can do? I've lost the contents of my > pg_xlog directory and postmaster is failing to start because it can't > find a valid checkpoint record. It had done a clean shutdown, so I > know that the dbms should be okay if I could just restart it. > I'm in a desparate situation. It's a production database. > Thanks in advance. Have you tried pg_resetxlog to get it started? -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073