Well after kill -9, it was in recovery mode but I restarted the server
again. It took a while (~ 45min) but it connected again. I have noticed that
after a vacuum it takes a while to connect for the first time. You mentioned
kill -9 is very bad news. Everything seems to be working fine now, should I
be worried? What are the consequences?
Thanks
From: Andrew Sullivan <ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Unable to connect to a specific database
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 12:38:09 -0500
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 09:19:30PM -0500, Christopher Browne wrote:
> It is possible that you have corrupted the database by issuing "kill
> -9."
If that's true, then WAL doesn't work. kill -9 shouldn't be any more
harmful than a machine crash. That is to say, it's very bad news,
but it shouldn't actually corrupt the database.
A
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