Ivan Sergio Borgonovo <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 2009-04-08 16:36:53 CEST LOG: startup process (PID 3176) was > terminated by signal 11: Segmentation fault 2009-04-08 16:36:53 CEST > LOG: aborting startup due to startup process failure Hmm, what Postgres version is this? Can you get a stack trace from the startup process crash? The only simple way out of this is to delete the presumably-corrupt WAL log by running pg_resetxlog. That will destroy the evidence about what went wrong, though, so if you'd like to contribute to preventing such problems in future you need to save a copy of everything beforehand (eg, tar up all of $PGDATA). Also you might have a corrupt database afterwards :-( regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general