Just as a follow up, it turns out that our fiberchannel RAID was power cycled while the systems were up and running. There are several write errors in the postgresql log.
Now I'm off to try to recover the data...
On 18 Apr 2007, at 10:08, Harvell F wrote:
I've got a database corruption/backend crash problem with my 8.1.3 database on Mac OS X Server 10.4. I'm beginning the process of trying to recover it. If anyone is interested in trying to fully understand the what, where, and why of the crash, please contact me. I've provided the basic information on the crash below.