Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 10:56, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > codeWarrior wrote: > > > Lookas as if you've managed to turn off your computer mid-transaction > > > thereby corrupting the postgreSQL commit logs (pg_clog)... > > > > > > You should never just turn off a database server... always shut it down > > > normally... Turning it off was a major mistake. I dont know if you can > > > recover or not as the system (postgreSQL) now thinks it is in the middle of > > > a transaction... > > > > PostgreSQL should never get corrupted by turning off the server. It > > isn't ideal to do that, but it should not get corrupted. > > Unless it is installed on hardware that lies about fsync. > > Which almost all ATA drives, parallel and serial, do, sadly. Ah, yes, that one. We do have a section in the 8.1 beta docs about that which will help in the future: http://candle.pha.pa.us/main/writings/pgsql/sgml/reliability.html -- 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 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
