Wells Oliver <woliver@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > For whatever reason- investigations still pending- the postgres process > froze up and I had to do a killall b/c pg_ctlcluster would not revive > the thing. Everything seems to be in working order, but I'd like to know > if there's any kind of consistency check I should run in light of > events. Also, what's the best way to track down the reason for the > crash? Just get into /var/log/postgresql and poke around? I don't think you need to worry about your data. Crash recovery is a well-tested aspect of Postgres ;-). As for figuring out what happened, did you force core dumps? Stack traces from the dumps would be most useful. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin