Well after kill -9, it was in recovery mode but I restarted the server again. It took a while (~ 45min) but it connected again. I have noticed that after a vacuum it takes a while to connect for the first time. You mentioned kill -9 is very bad news. Everything seems to be working fine now, should I be worried? What are the consequences?
Thanks

From: Andrew Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Unable to connect to a specific database
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 12:38:09 -0500

On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 09:19:30PM -0500, Christopher Browne wrote:
> It is possible that you have corrupted the database by issuing "kill
> -9."

If that's true, then WAL doesn't work.  kill -9 shouldn't be any more
harmful than a machine crash.  That is to say, it's very bad news,
but it shouldn't actually corrupt the database.

A

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