On Wednesday 08 April 2009 6:32:06 pm Jeff Brenton wrote:
> I've encountered some db corruption after restarting postgres on my
> database server running 8.2.4. I think that postgres did not shut down
> cleanly. Postgres started appropriately but crashed 45 minutes later.
> I used pg_resetxlog after the crash to get the db to start again but it
> appears that the database is not running properly now. When users try
> to access some of the tables in the db they get the error below;
>
>
>
> ERROR: index "testrun_log_pkey" contains unexpected zero page at block
> 3155408
>
> HINT: Please REINDEX it.}> <SQL environment diagnostic: no diagnostic
> record
>
> SQL connection is null
>
> SQL statement diagnostic: XX002 7 {Error while executing the query;
>
> ERROR: index "testrun_log_pkey" contains unexpected zero page at block
> 3155408
>
> HINT: Please REINDEX it.}
>
>
>
> I've attempted to re-index the pkey listed but after an hour it fails
> with
>
>
>
> REINDEX INDEX testrun_log_pkey;
>
>
>
> ERROR: could not write block 1832079 of temporary file: No space left
> on device
>
> HINT: Perhaps out of disk space?
>
>
>
> There is currently 14GB free on the disk that postgres is installed on.
> Does anyone know what I can do to get the db up and running again?
I guess the first question is, does the db have permissions(access) to all that
space?
>
>
>
> /dev/amrd0s1a 3.9G 2.7G 898M 75% /
>
> /dev/amrd0s1e 115G 43G 63G 40% /backup
>
> /dev/amrd1s1d 133G 748M 121G 1% /wal
>
> /dev/amrd2s1d 663G 596G 14G 98% /db
>
> /dev/amrd0s1d 3.9G 184M 3.4G 5% /var
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Adrian Klaver
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