Re: Help, server doesn't start

El 24/06/2012 11:30 p.m., René Romero Benavides escribió:

El 24/06/2012 09:53 p.m., Anibal David Acosta escribió:

We have an old postgres installation (8.3) running on windows 2003

The server run perfect for many years but today it crash L

 

We have a very old backup so I’ll try desperate to repair.

If I can’t repair I want to skip the error and start server with only healthy data, no matter if I lose some table page, entire table or even entire database because the server has many databases inside.

 

 

Currently the database is not starting, when I try to start I got the in the log:

 

2012-06-25 02:22:33 GMT LOG:  database system was interrupted while in recovery at 2012-06-25 02:22:26 GMT

2012-06-25 02:22:33 GMT HINT:  This probably means that some data is corrupted and you will have to use the last backup for recovery.

2012-06-25 02:22:33 GMT LOG:  database system was not properly shut down; automatic recovery in progress

2012-06-25 02:22:33 GMT LOG:  redo starts at 17C/E1C42040

2012-06-25 02:22:33 GMT LOG:  loaded library "$libdir/plugins/plugin_debugger.dll"

2012-06-25 02:22:33 GMT FATAL:  the database system is starting up

 

[LAST TWO LINES REPEAT MANY TIMES]

 

2012-06-25 02:22:36 GMT LOG:  startup process (PID 1120) was terminated by exception 0xC000000D

2012-06-25 02:22:36 GMT HINT:  See C include file "ntstatus.h" for a description of the hexadecimal value.

2012-06-25 02:22:36 GMT LOG:  aborting startup due to startup process failure

2012-06-25 02:22:36 GMT FATAL:  the database system is starting up

2012-06-25 02:22:36 GMT LOG:  loaded library "$libdir/plugins/plugin_debugger.dll"

2012-06-25 02:22:36 GMT FATAL:  the database system is starting up

 

 

 

The first advice here is:

• backup your data files before any attempt to fix the issue.

It might be a hardware failure that corrupted your data (specifically your transaction logs).
It might be a bug on that specific version, what is your minor release number?

• As a last resort you could use pg_resetlog, it's a binary that resets the information in the control file and transaction logs.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/app-pgresetxlog.html
but please backup your data directory first.
After that, if the server starts up successfully, perform a pg_dump / pg_dumpall A.S.A.P and reload your data on a new data cluster.

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and please, check and double check that the server process is not active, if it's not and pg_resetxlog complains that it is, check again and then delete the postmaster.pid file.