Re: Disaster!

Tom Lane wrote:
> Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:
> > Are you interested in real backtraces, any of the old data directory, 
> > etc. to debug the problem?
> 
> If you could recompile with debug support and get a backtrace from the
> panic, it would be helpful.  I suspect what we need to do is make the
> clog code more willing to interpret a zero-length read as 8K of zeroes
> instead of an error, at least during recovery.  But I kinda thought
> there was such an escape hatch already, so I want to see exactly how
> it got to the point of the failure.
> 
> Also, which PG version are you running exactly?

I asked him, 7.4.1.

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