Re: Recovery of PGSQL after system crash failing!!!

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Ryan Kirkpatrick <pgsql@rkirkpat.net>
Cc: Vadim Mikheev <vmikheev@sectorbase.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2001-02-13T05:05:24Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Ryan Kirkpatrick <pgsql@rkirkpat.net> writes:
> #2  0x20dc71 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6
> #3  0x8080495 in XLogFileOpen ()

Hm.  Evidently it's failing to open the xlog file, but the code is set
up in such a way that it dies before telling you why :-(  Take a look
at XLogFileOpen in src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c and tweak the code
to tell you the path and errno it's failing on before it abort()s.

			regards, tom lane