2010/1/13 Ralf Schuchardt <r...@gmx.de> > Hi, > > on one of our Mac servers an update (Remote Desktop Client) killed > yesterday the postmaster process. Apparently this did not have any influence > on existing connections and therefore was not detected until some time > later, when no connection for a backup could be made. > > I have then closed all apps with connections to the database. This brought > the whole cluster down. It restarted then with some transaction log rollback > messages and seems to be running fine since then. > > Can I now expect that the database is in a consistent state, or must I > assume the database is corrupted? > I could run a dump-all without problems and there are rows created after > the death the postmaster. > > It depends on the signal which was sent to the postgres process.
AFAIK, only SIGKILL (unconditional kill) can make some damage to the database. see http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/app-postgres.html forfull explanation > Thanks. > > Ralf Schuchardt > -- > Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general > -- Filip Rembiałkowski JID,mailto:filip.rembialkow...@gmail.com http://filip.rembialkowski.net/
