Re: production server down

Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Please show the output of pg_controldata, or a hex dump of pg_control
>> if pg_controldata fails.

> OK, here it is:

> ...
> pg_control last modified:             Tue Dec 14 15:39:26 2004
> ...
> Time of latest checkpoint:            Tue Nov  2 17:05:32 2004

[ blink... ]  That seems like an unreasonable gap between checkpoints,
especially for a production server.  Can you see an explanation?
        regards, tom lane