"Mike C" <smith.not.western@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On 10/8/07, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> If you're lucky, REINDEX might solve your problems.
> My problem is that I can't even start postmaster to perform the
> reindex on now. As soon as I try start (via pg_ctl, 8.1.10):
> ...
> postgres_report[24165]: [9-1] LOG: redo done at 520/6E2D100
> postgres_report[24165]: [10-1] PANIC: failed to re-find parent key
> in "24977" for split pages 230790/263989
Ugh, so that's happening during recovery cleanup. Sucks to be you :-(
You should try pg_resetxlog, then start the database and reindex,
but I'm not holding out a lot of hope here. It sounds like the
SAN failure messed things up beyond recovery.
regards, tom lane
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