On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 11:59 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > "Casey T. Deccio" <casey@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > I recently shut down my machine (as far as I know, it went down > > cleanly). When I brought it back up, one of my databases was messed > > up. Here is the error I get when I try to select: > > > ERROR: could not access status of transaction 4114057 > > DETAIL: could not open file "/var/lib/postgres/data/pg_clog/0003": No > > such file or directory > > > I tried restoring a backup of the data directory that did contain the > > 0003 file, but that didn't work either. > > Define "didn't work" ... what happened, exactly, when you tried it? > Sorry, I was too tired last night to try it again and post the error. Here it is: ERROR: could not access status of transaction 4114057 DETAIL: could not read from file "/var/lib/postgres/data/pg_clog/0003" at offset 237568: Success > People have occasionally dealt with this sort of scenario by creating > dummy clog segment files by hand, and I'd think that restoring the > segment file from a backup would do as well or better. > How would I create a dummy clog segment file, if needed? Regards, Casey ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org