Re: [HACKERS] Hosed PostGreSQL Installation

2002-09-23 Thread Pete St. Onge
Just following up on Tom Lane's email - A couple of things that I hadn't mentioned: After bringing up the machine, the first thing I did before mucking about with PostGreSQL was to tarball $PGDATA so that I'd have a second chance if I messed up. I then ran pg_resetlog -f the first time, as Tom s

Re: [HACKERS] Hosed PostGreSQL Installation

2002-09-21 Thread Tom Lane
"Pete St. Onge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As a result of some disk errors on another drive, an admin in our group > brought down the server hosting our pgsql databases with a kill -KILL > after having gone to runlevel 1 and finding the postmaster process still > running. No surprise, our insta

[HACKERS] Hosed PostGreSQL Installation

2002-09-20 Thread Pete St. Onge
As a result of some disk errors on another drive, an admin in our group brought down the server hosting our pgsql databases with a kill -KILL after having gone to runlevel 1 and finding the postmaster process still running. No surprise, our installation was hosed in the process. After talking on