Re: how to resolve invalid primary checkpoint

On Jul 10, 2007, at 4:08 AM, lim siang min wrote:
> I'm new to Postgresql and need to support on any IT related problem.
> One of my customer not able to start the postgresql services.
> The log said that ..
> record with zero length at 0/2E16910
> invalid primary checkpoint record
> record with zero length at 0/2E168D0
> invalid secondary checkpoint record
> panic: could not locate a valid checkpoint record.
>
> how should i resolve this issue.
> Really appreciate any inputs. Thanks.

Sounds like your WAL files have been corrupted, which indicates
faulty hardware (assuming that you haven't set fsync=off). I don't
really know if there's any way to recover from this; you may have to
restore from a backup. In any case, I'd question the hardware that
you're running on.
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