DB errors

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#1Akash Garg
akash.garg@gmail.com

We had a crash of one of our db systems last night. After doing a fsck of
he file system and getting the db backup, we're getting a lot of these
messages in our logs. The DB will also occasionally crash now.

Oct 12 07:40:16 postgres[30770]: [3-1] 2007-10-12 07:40:16 PDTERROR: could
not access status of transaction 2259991368
Oct 12 07:40:16 postgres[30770]: [3-2] 2007-10-12 07:40:16 PDTDETAIL: Could
not read from file "pg_clog/086B" at offset 73728: Success.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Akash

#2Scott Marlowe
scott.marlowe@gmail.com
In reply to: Akash Garg (#1)
Re: DB errors

On 10/12/07, Akash Garg <akash.garg@gmail.com> wrote:

We had a crash of one of our db systems last night. After doing a fsck of
he file system and getting the db backup, we're getting a lot of these
messages in our logs. The DB will also occasionally crash now.

Oct 12 07:40:16 postgres[30770]: [3-1] 2007-10-12 07:40:16 PDTERROR: could
not access status of transaction 2259991368
Oct 12 07:40:16 postgres[30770]: [3-2] 2007-10-12 07:40:16 PDTDETAIL: Could
not read from file "pg_clog/086B" at offset 73728: Success.

Got a recent backup?

IT sounds like your db is corrupted, and while recovering some of the
data in it might be possible, it would be better to start over with a
clean backup.

Note that if your database acts like this after a crash, you are
likely running with unreliable fsyncs on your system (either they were
turned on in postgresql.conf or your hardware lies to the OS). That's
bad. A properly built postgresql server should be capable of
recovering from this with no corruption.

#3Filip Rembiałkowski
plk.zuber@gmail.com
In reply to: Akash Garg (#1)
Re: DB errors

2007/10/12, Akash Garg <akash.garg@gmail.com>:

We had a crash of one of our db systems last night. After doing a fsck of
he file system and getting the db backup, we're getting a lot of these
messages in our logs. The DB will also occasionally crash now.

Oct 12 07:40:16 postgres[30770]: [3-1] 2007-10-12 07:40:16 PDTERROR: could
not access status of transaction 2259991368
Oct 12 07:40:16 postgres[30770]: [3-2] 2007-10-12 07:40:16 PDTDETAIL: Could
not read from file "pg_clog/086B" at offset 73728: Success.

which version are you using?

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Filip Rembiałkowski

#4Akash Garg
akash.garg@gmail.com
In reply to: Filip Rembiałkowski (#3)
Re: DB errors

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On 10/12/07, Filip Rembiałkowski <plk.zuber@gmail.com> wrote:

2007/10/12, Akash Garg <akash.garg@gmail.com>:

We had a crash of one of our db systems last night. After doing a fsck

of

he file system and getting the db backup, we're getting a lot of these
messages in our logs. The DB will also occasionally crash now.

Oct 12 07:40:16 postgres[30770]: [3-1] 2007-10-12 07:40:16

PDTERROR: could

not access status of transaction 2259991368
Oct 12 07:40:16 postgres[30770]: [3-2] 2007-10-12 07:40:16

PDTDETAIL: Could

not read from file "pg_clog/086B" at offset 73728: Success.

which version are you using?

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Filip Rembiałkowski

#5Alan Hodgson
ahodgson@simkin.ca
In reply to: Akash Garg (#1)
Re: DB errors

On Friday 12 October 2007, "Akash Garg" <akash.garg@gmail.com> wrote:

We had a crash of one of our db systems last night. After doing a fsck
of he file system and getting the db backup, we're getting a lot of these
messages in our logs. The DB will also occasionally crash now.

Oct 12 07:40:16 postgres[30770]: [3-1] 2007-10-12 07:40:16 PDTERROR:
could not access status of transaction 2259991368
Oct 12 07:40:16 postgres[30770]: [3-2] 2007-10-12 07:40:16 PDTDETAIL:
Could not read from file "pg_clog/086B" at offset 73728: Success.

Any ideas?

Restore from backup. And find out why your server doesn't respect fsync.

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