Re: 7.1 startup recovery failure

Corrupted or not, after a crash take a snapshot of the data tree
before firing it back up again.  Doesn't take that much time
(especially with a netapp filer) and it allows for a virtually
unlimited number of attempts to solve the trouble or debug.

--
Rod Taylor
   BarChord Entertainment Inc.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hiroshi Inoue" <Inoue@tpf.co.jp>
To: "Vadim Mikheev" <vmikheev@sectorbase.com>
Cc: "pgsql-hackers" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 11:02 PM
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] 7.1 startup recovery failure


> Vadim Mikheev wrote:
> >
> > > There's a report of startup recovery failure in Japan.
> > > Redo done but ...
> > > Unfortunately I have no time today.
> >
> > Please ask to start up with wal_debug = 1...
> >
>
> Isn't it very difficult for dbas to leave the
> corrupted database as it is ?
> ISTM we could hardly expect to get the log with
> wal_debug = 1 unless we automatically force the
> log in case of recovery failures.
>
> regards,
> Hiroshi Inoue
>
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