Hi Richard,
i feared all db gurus are asleep at the moment.
They are, that's why you've got me :-)
Am Freitag, 1. Oktober 2004 10:56 schrieb Richard Huxton:
PS - your next mail mentions sig11 which usually implies hardware problems, so don't forget to test the machine thoroughly once this is over.
You saved my life!! Nothing less!
This was a great help cause i never thought that it could be a hardware problem. I took a dump from last night and tried to recover on the original machine. it didnt work as i wrote. but when i tried to install it on another machine it just worked fine.
So everything is up and running.
I still have all the corrupt files in place and now i try to determine what went wrong.
As it is obviously a hardware problem, my question is now: how can i check my hardware (disk)?
How can i get informed next time when things are going wrong?
Well, it might be memory too. You probably want to run memtest86 for a day or two. Bonnie++ is disk performance rather than testing, but will stress the system.
http://www.linuxtested.com/linux_tools.html
Many modern drives offer SMART disk monitoring - google for tools to display the relevant statistics.
Ok i will come up with a lot of questions as soon as i had another coffee because i never want to feel so helpless again.
There really should be a section in the manual like "desaster recovery" which shows some tricks and methods.
It doesn't happen often enough to warrant a chapter, but someone should write something step-by-step.
pg version is 7.4.2
Download 7.4.5 - that's got the latest bugfixes in it.
i will as soon as my nerves are cooling down again :-)
Nice to be able to stop screaming, isn't it ;-)
-- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd
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