2009/10/16 Neha Patel <npatel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Hi, > > > > We are running with postgres sql 7.3.2. We were trying to create an index on > a big table. The create index command ran for nearly 5 hours at which point > we decided to interrupt it. Since this was interrupted, any operations > attempted on the table on which the index was being created gives following > error in pgsql log: > > > > LOG: all server processes terminated; reinitializing shared memory and > semaphor > > es > > LOG: database system was interrupted at 2009-10-16 10:44:54 > BST > > LOG: checkpoint record is at > 150/71A0C0CC > > LOG: redo record is at 150/71A0C0CC; undo record is at 0/0; shutdown > TRUE > > LOG: next transaction id: 1757299460; next oid: > 43508941 > > LOG: database system was not properly shut down; automatic recovery in > progress > > LOG: ReadRecord: record with zero length at > 150/71A0C10C > > LOG: redo is not > required > > LOG: database system is ready > > > > > Any idea what this means and what we need to do to resolve access to this > table again? We can see the next oid number increases over time. Access to > all other tables in the database is fine. Any help would be greatly > appreciated. > Have you tried using pg_dump and dumping just that table? What does \d {table name} tell you? What does ps -ef|grep post show? Although the log looks like it is restarting itself, have you tried shutting down the database (and restarting it)? > > Many Thanks > > Neha. -- Brian Modra Land line: +27 23 5411 462 Mobile: +27 79 69 77 082 5 Jan Louw Str, Prince Albert, 6930 Postal: P.O. Box 2, Prince Albert 6930 South Africa http://www.zwartberg.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin