I just observed a very similar problem with Postgres 7.2.1 on Linux.
It happened while running transaction which inserts a large number of
records.
From the log-file:
... ...
2003-03-19 17:00:18 DEBUG: recycled transaction log file 0000000000000000
2003-03-19 17:09:56 DEBUG: XLogWrite: new log file created - consider
increasing WAL_FILES
2003-03-19 17:10:22 DEBUG: recycled transaction log file 0000000000000001
2003-03-19 17:15:25 DEBUG: recycled transaction log file 0000000000000002
2003-03-19 17:23:40 DEBUG: XLogWrite: new log file created - consider
increasing WAL_FILES
... ...
Rao, what platform you're running on?
Mike
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of Rao Kumar
> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 10:12 AM
> To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
> Subject: [ADMIN] Postgre 7.3.2 pg_clog error
>
>
> We are running into a pg_clog problem since we recently upgraded to 7.3.2
> version. The error log reports:
>
> PANIC: open of /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_clog/0002 failed: No such file or
> directory
> 2003-03-19 05:46:40 LOG: recycled transaction log file 00000001000000B8
> 2003-03-19 05:51:02 PANIC: open of /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_clog/0020
> failed: No such file or directory
>
> Following the error, the database shuts down and goes into recovery mode,
> sometimes
> corrupting the index/data files making the database irrecoverable.
>
> To give you a quick background, We run an OLTP application on
> postgres with
> large transaction volume. We were able to successfully test our app with
> simulators producing
> these high transaction volumes with 7.1.3. But ever since we upgraded the
> database to
> 7.3.2, we are encountering the above pg_clog error during high transaction
> volume/activity.
>
> If you need further information ( such as the .conf file), please email me
> and I will be more than glad to provide you.
>
> Thank You
>
> Rao Kumar
>
> 2003-03-17 01:32:32 FATAL: The database system is starting up
> 2003-03-17 01:32:32 FATAL: The database system is starting up
> 2003-03-17 01:32:32 FATAL: The database system is starting up
> 2003-03-17 01:32:33 FATAL: The database system is starting up
> 2003-03-17 01:32:33 FATAL: The database system is starting up
> 2003-03-17 01:32:33 FATAL: The database system is starting up
> 2003-03-17 01:32:33 LOG: recycled transaction log file 0000001700000092
> 2003-03-17 01:32:33 LOG: recycled transaction log file 0000001700000093
> 2003-03-17 01:32:33 LOG: database system is ready
> 2003-03-17 01:32:44 PANIC: open of /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_clog/0000
> failed: No such file or directory
> 2003-03-17 01:32:44 LOG: server process (pid 39313) was terminated by
> signal 6
> 2003-03-17 01:32:44 LOG: terminating any other active server processes
> 2003-03-17 01:32:44 LOG: all server processes terminated; reinitializing
> shared memory and semaphores
> 2003-03-17 01:32:44 FATAL: The database system is starting up
> 2003-03-17 01:32:44 LOG: database system was interrupted at 2003-03-17
> 01:32:33 EST
> 2003-03-17 01:32:44 LOG: checkpoint record is at 17/96B42798
> 2003-03-17 01:32:44 LOG: redo record is at 17/96B42798; undo record is at
> 0/0; shutdown TRUE
> 2003-03-17 01:32:44 LOG: next transaction id: 3584774; next oid: 5063218
> 2003-03-17 01:32:44 LOG: database system was not properly shut down;
> automatic recovery in progress
> 2003-03-17 01:32:44 FATAL: The database system is starting up
> 2003-03-17 01:32:45 FATAL: The database system is starting up
> 2003-03-17 01:32:45 FATAL: The database system is starting up
> 2003-03-17 01:32:45 LOG: redo starts at 17/96B427D8
> 2003-03-17 01:32:45 FATAL: The database system is starting up
> 2003-03-17 01:32:45 FATAL: The database system is starting up
> 2003-03-17 01:32:45 LOG: ReadRecord: record with zero length at
> 17/96F60DF4
> 2003-03-17 01:32:45 LOG: redo done at 17/96F60DD0
> 2003-03-17 01:32:45 FATAL: The database system is starting up
> 2003-03-17 01:32:45 FATAL: The database system is starting up
> 2003-03-17 01:32:45 FATAL: The database system is starting up
> 003-03-17 01:32:47 FATAL: The database system is starting up
> 2003-03-17 01:32:47 FATAL: The database system is starting up
> 2003-03-17 01:32:48 FATAL: The database system is starting up
> 2003-03-17 01:32:48 FATAL: The database system is starting up
> 2003-03-17 01:32:48 LOG: recycled transaction log file 0000001700000095
> 2003-03-17 01:32:48 LOG: recycled transaction log file 0000001700000094
> 2003-03-17 01:32:48 LOG: database system is ready
> 2003-03-17 01:32:54 PANIC: open of /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_clog/0000
> failed: No such file or directory
> 2003-03-17 01:32:54 LOG: server process (pid 39349) was terminated by
> signal 6
> 2003-03-17 01:32:54 LOG: terminating any other active server processes
> 2003-03-17 01:32:54 LOG: all server processes terminated; reinitializing
> shared memory and semaphores
> 2003-03-17 01:32:55 FATAL: The database system is starting up
> 2003-03-17 01:32:55 LOG: database system was interrupted at 2003-03-17
> 01:32:49 EST
> 2003-03-17 01:32:55 LOG: checkpoint record is at 17/96F60DF4
> 2003-03-17 01:32:55 LOG: redo record is at 17/96F60DF4; undo record is at
> 0/0; shutdown TRUE
> 2003-03-17 01:32:55 LOG: next transaction id: 3584892; next oid: 5071410
> 2003-03-17 01:32:55 LOG: database system was not properly shut down;
> automatic recovery in progress
> 2003-03-17 01:32:55 LOG: redo starts at 17/96F60E34
> 2003-03-17 01:32:55 LOG: ReadRecord: record with zero length at
> 17/97202654
> 2003-03-17 01:32:55 LOG: redo done at 17/97202630
> 2003-03-17 01:32:55 FATAL: The database system is starting up
> 2003-03-17 01:32:55 FATAL: The database system is starting up
> 2003-03-17 01:32:55 FATAL: The database system is starting up
> 2003-03-17 01:32:55 FATAL: The database system is starting up
> 2003-03-17 01:32:55 FATAL: The database system is starting up
> 2003-03-17 01:32:55 FATAL: The database system is starting up
> 2003-03-17 01:32:55 FATAL: The database system is starting up
> 2003-03-17 01:32:55 FATAL: The database system is starting up
> 2003-03-17 01:32:55 FATAL: The database system is starting up
> 2003-03-17 01:32:55 FATAL: The database system is starting up
> 2003-03-17 01:32:55 FATAL: The database system is starting up
> 2003-03-17 01:32:55 FATAL: The database system is starting up
> 2003-03-17 01:32:56 FATAL: The database system is starting up
> 2003-03-17 01:32:56 FATAL: The database system is starting up
> 2003-03-17 01:32:56 FATAL: The database system is starting up
> 2003-03-17 01:32:56 FATAL: The database system is starting up
> 2003-03-17 01:32:56 FATAL: The database system is starting up
> 2003-03-17 01:32:56 FATAL: The database system is starting up
> 2003-03-17 01:32:56 FATAL: The database system is starting up
> 2003-03-17 01:32:56 FATAL: The database system is starting up
> 2003-03-17 01:32:56 FATAL: The database system is starting up
> 2003-03-17 01:32:57 FATAL: The database system is starting up
> 2003-03-17 01:32:57 FATAL: The database system is starting up
> 2003-03-17 01:32:57 FATAL: The database system is starting up
> 2003-03-17 01:32:57 FATAL: The database system is starting up
> 2003-03-17 01:32:57 FATAL: The database system is starting up
> 2003-03-17 01:32:57 FATAL: The database system is starting up
> 2003-03-17 01:32:57 FATAL: The database system is starting up
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