Re: Postmaster cannot start

> "Qingqing Zhou"  writes:
>> But not sure why it reports the following error 
>> message (which looks like a post-commit cleanup caused error):
> 
>>     DEBUG:  AbortCurrentTransaction
>>     PANIC:  cannot abort transaction 14135438, it was already committed
> 
> I think this is an artifact of the fact that VACUUM FULL commits its own
> transaction before it starts the final index cleanup pass.  We ought to
> think of a better way to handle that sometime.  I don't recall having
> seen a PANIC like this reported before, but on reflection it seems like
> this would be guaranteed to happen for any ERROR condition occurring
> during that last pass.  An error there would be pretty improbable, but
> surely not impossible.
>
>
>>>I have check my past postgresql log file, i did not see this error come 
>>>out (i did vacuum full every night).
>
> 
> As for the OP's problem, it seems pretty suspicious that we got through
> one cycle of vacuuming pg_class_relname_nsp_index and then the second
> one failed with what seems to be a bad block link.  If that bad link was
> there before, why didn't it fail the first time through?  I'm wondering
> about flaky hardware ...
>
>>>Any tool to check am i having a flaky hardware?
>>>
>>>Regards
>>>Beh