andy rost <Andy.Rost@xxxxxxxx> writes: > We stopped postgres using kill -TERM. When we tried to restart the > engine, it would not recover. Since you're apparently using archiving, you could pull the missing xlog files back from the archive no? Either manually, or automatically by installing a recovery.conf file. I am kinda wondering what happened here though. Did you do anything to the database between the shutdown and the attempted restart? It looks like you have a pg_control file that is quite a bit older than it should be. regards, tom lane