On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 10:56, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> codeWarrior wrote:
> > Lookas as if you've managed to turn off your computer mid-transaction
> > thereby corrupting the postgreSQL commit logs (pg_clog)...
> >
> > You should never just turn off a database server... always shut it down
> > normally... Turning it off was a major mistake. I dont know if you can
> > recover or not as the system (postgreSQL) now thinks it is in the middle of
> > a transaction...
>
> PostgreSQL should never get corrupted by turning off the server. It
> isn't ideal to do that, but it should not get corrupted.
Unless it is installed on hardware that lies about fsync.
Which almost all ATA drives, parallel and serial, do, sadly.