RE: [HACKERS] Beta2 Vacuum and pg_dump failures and mangled databases

[Mikheev, Vadim]

> [ . . . ]
> > Restarting the server didn't make a difference.
> 
> I upgraded to beta3 just now and the problem persists. I 
> didn't do an initdb obviously cuz
> I cannot save the data via pg_dump. Beta3 will read beta2 
> data OK (I guess this means that
> an initdb is not required when going from beta2 to beta3?!) 
> but I can't vacuum or dump on
> any database.

So, server doesn't restart?
Could add

wal_debug = 1

to postgresql.conf, start postmaster and send me stderr output?

Vadim