On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 11:25:23AM -0500, Steve Peterson wrote: > Note that if needed I can whack the database and start over very > easily, if that's the most expedient way out of this. That might be the easiest thing to do, but it might also be worth investigating what happened. It's possible that you've encountered a case where files should have been removed but weren't, in which case the developers might be interested in finding out why. > >SELECT datname FROM pg_database WHERE oid = 16388; > > database 'postgres' And that's the database you were connected to when making the following query? Just making sure. > The query returns no rows with an IN clause of > > ... > WHERE c.relfilenode IN (17383, 17385, 17387, 17388); > > Note that during one of the copies the system became quiescent and I > ended up stopping what I thought was the server process that had hung: [...] > 2006-08-07 16:47:56 LOG: server process (PID 5140) was terminated by signal 1 Maybe one of the developers can comment on whether this might have caused a problem. -- Michael Fuhr