> I know, from IRC, the problem has been solved, there was no space on the > disk ... > > Unfortunately, i haven't logs. > Yes. Thanks to everybody on the IRC who helped me out. The suggestion that was most helpful was to call the posgres binary directly. /usr/lib/postgresql/8.3/bin/postgres. Calling the /etc/init.d postgres starter gave me no information at all but calling the binary told me what the problem was. In a nutshell somehow the restoring of the log files stopped and the disk started filling up with the unprocessed log files. Eventually the disk filled up. I have since set up monitoring the disk space and the postgres replication lag using zabbix. The zabbix agent reports the disk space and I report the replication lag using a ruby script. In case anybody is using zabbix here is the script. #! /usr/local/bin/ruby require 'date' require 'yaml' require 'socket' require 'timeout' require "base64" def send_item_to_zabbix (server, port, host, key, value) response = "" request = "<req><host>" request << Base64.encode64(host) request << "</host><key>" request << Base64.encode64(key) request << "</key><data>" request << Base64.encode64(value) request << "</data></req>" status = Timeout::timeout(30){ socket = TCPSocket.new(server, port) socket.puts request response = socket.gets if response == "OK" || response.nil? response = "" else response = "Monitor rejected key='#{key}' value='#{value}' host='#{host}' with response #{response}" end } #timeout return response rescue Timeout::Error return "can't connect to monitoring server at #{server}:#{port}" rescue return $! end #send item to zabbix output =`/usr/lib/postgresql/8.3/bin/pg_controldata /var/lib/postgresql/8.3/main` data = YAML.load output last_checkpoint = DateTime.parse( data['Time of latest checkpoint']) hours, mins, secs, ignore_fractions = Date::day_fraction_to_time(DateTime.now - last_checkpoint) lag = hours * 60 * 60 + mins * 60 + secs output = send_item_to_zabbix 'my.zabbix..host.com', '10051', 'postgres_host_name'', 'postgres.replication.lag', lag.to_s ~ -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general