[GENERAL] How do I recover from pg_xlog/0000000000000000 (log file 0, segment 0) failed: No such file or directory

2004-10-19 Thread peter Willis
Hello, Is there a way to recover from the following error? I have (had) an existing database and wish not to lose the data tables. Thanks for any help, Pete [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]$ pg_ctl start postmaster successfully started [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]$ LOG: database system shutdown was interrupted at

Re: [GENERAL] How do I recover from pg_xlog/0000000000000000 (log file 0, segment 0) failed: No such file or directory

2004-10-19 Thread Tom Lane
peter Willis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]$ LOG: database system shutdown was interrupted at 2004-10-18 11:41:55 PDT LOG: open of /web2-disk1/grip/database/pg_xlog/ (log file 0, segment 0) failed: No such file or directory LOG: invalid primary checkpoint

Re: [GENERAL] How do I recover from pg_xlog/0000000000000000 (log

2004-10-19 Thread pw
Tom Lane wrote: peter Willis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]$ LOG: database system shutdown was interrupted at 2004-10-18 11:41:55 PDT LOG: open of /web2-disk1/grip/database/pg_xlog/ (log file 0, segment 0) failed: No such file or directory LOG: invalid

Re: [GENERAL] How do I recover from pg_xlog/0000000000000000 (log

2004-10-19 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 03:49:04PM -0700, pw wrote: I set up a cron job to pg_dump and gzip every hour and dump any backup gz files older than 1 week. Huh ... be sure to keep some older backup anyway! There was just someone on a list (this one?) whose last two weeks of backups contained no

Re: [GENERAL] How do I recover from pg_xlog/0000000000000000 (log

2004-10-19 Thread Mike Nolan
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 03:49:04PM -0700, pw wrote: I set up a cron job to pg_dump and gzip every hour and dump any backup gz files older than 1 week. Huh ... be sure to keep some older backup anyway! There was just someone on a list (this one?) whose last two weeks of backups

Re: [GENERAL] How do I recover from pg_xlog/0000000000000000 (log

2004-10-19 Thread pw
Mike Nolan wrote: On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 03:49:04PM -0700, pw wrote: I set up a cron job to pg_dump and gzip every hour and dump any backup gz files older than 1 week. Huh ... be sure to keep some older backup anyway! There was just someone on a list (this one?) whose last two weeks of backups