Tom Allison <tom@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 2007-11-30 19:35:20 EST PANIC: could not locate a valid checkpoint > record Ugh :-(. pg_resetxlog should get you back into the database, but it's anybody's guess whether and how badly the contents will be corrupted. I would recommend trying a dump/reload and also doing any manual consistency crosschecks you can think of. > postgres version 8.2 sitting on a Reiser FS on RAID1.... Better take a second look at your disk hardware configuration. At least in theory, this Can't Happen if your disk hardware is handling fsync honestly. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
