For unknown reasons, our PG server died overnight. (PG 7.4.2, RedHat 8,
ext3 ordered data mode, and battery backed RAID5) When it came back up, I
saw an unfamiliar line in the recovery output from Postgres:
Apr 20 11:28:14 postgres: [6203] LOG: database system was interrupted at
2004-04-20 05:50:59 CDT
Apr 20 11:28:14 postgres: [6203] LOG: checkpoint record is at 7C/CF55FB6C
Apr 20 11:28:14 postgres: [6203] LOG: redo record is at 7C/CF55FB6C; undo
record is at 0/0; shutdown FALSE
Apr 20 11:28:14 postgres: [6203] LOG: next transaction ID: 9374951; next
OID: 158516389
Apr 20 11:28:14 postgres: [6203] LOG: database system was not properly
shut down; automatic recovery in progress
Apr 20 11:28:14 postgres: [6203] LOG: redo starts at 7C/CF55FBAC
Apr 20 11:28:17 postgres: [6203] LOG: unexpected pageaddr 7C/C7A0A000 in
log file 124, segment 207, offset 10526720
Apr 20 11:28:17 postgres: [6203] LOG: redo done at 7C/CFA09F7C
Apr 20 11:28:20 postgres: [6203] LOG: database system is ready
What's the significance of the "unexpected pageaddr" item?