Re: psql: FATAL: the database system is starting up

Valentin Bogdanov <valiouk@yahoo.co.uk> writes:
> I run out of disk space on the box and had to delete some files and restart postgres. Ever since I have been getting
theabove message. PS shows this process: 
> 9351 ?        D      0:04 postgres: startup process
> Running an strace on this process shows that it is trying to write 8K of zeros to a file called 023D in pg_clog but
failsat 224K and it just keeps trying forever. 

What PG version is this, exactly?  What files did you delete (any of
Postgres' files)?

            regards, tom lane