Re: startup subprocess hangs

It seems that I have made things significantly worse.  I am in the process of restoring from last night’s backup.  Then I should be able to get the data that I missed today back in.

Thanks for the help,

Andrew

Without any actual messages, not sure what to say in regards to whether it is still recovering, or finished recovering successfully (from the logs).

There are a few ways to check if the postmaster is up. A simple check is to try a psql <dbname> and see if you’re up.

Thanks,
Anjan

Do you want me to stop the recovery to get the console messages?  After issuing the start command I did not capture the logs because I did not notice a problem right away.  Now I cannot see them anymore.

Is there anything I can do?

The database is 99GB with almost all the data in one table.

How long should the recovery process take?

Thanks,

Andrew

Probably some kind of a hardware issue (you lost a path to the array for e.g.), or someone may have issued a kill -9 to postmaster?

Open another terminal and check the system log (/var/log/messages) if you are not redirecting logs anywhere.

Can you paste the console messages on the list so people can see what exactly might be going on?

Thanks,
Anjan

I am running Postgres 7.4.5 and I have recently run into a problem.  My database was running fine for days and then today in the middle of the day it seems that the startup subprocess kicked in and started recovering.  I am not sure from what, and I am not sure how it started, but nothing was allowed to connect and it has been running for quite some time (30 minutes).  The process said it was starting to recover, but how long am I to wait?

Is there a way to get the status?

Can I just skip the recovery and get it going?

The environment is RH EL 3 2.4.21-4.ELsmp, with and EMC SAN for storage and QLogix cards for fibre access.

Thanks,

Andrew