On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 11:35 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote: > The short version is that the person did a bulk-load of some PostGIS > data using the osm2pgsql data-loader tool > ( http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osm2pgsql) to populate a Pg 9.1 > database. This appeared to succeed, but when the server was restarted > it failed to come up, complaining that "WAL contains references to > invalid pages" and "page 1493172 of relation base/16385/477861 was > uninitialized" (for many different pages). > > The logs of the shutdown suggest that a backend probably crashed, but > that shouldn't cause the WAL and heap corruption observed by the OP. Is it possible that the machine has write cache enabled? Regards, Jeff Davis -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
