Re: production server down

Joe Conway wrote:
> We then spent most of the next 24 hours reviewing the recovered 
> database. The bulk data loading process was well instrumented, so we 
> knew exactly which data should have been committed prior to the server 
> hang, and which files were inprocess (we had been doing 10 loads in 
> parallel) at the time of the hang. The results of the investigation 
> indicated complete recovery, with no missing or unwanted (i.e. 
> uncommitted records looking committed) data.

Good analysis.  Seems you were lucky in that only WAL was corrupt and
not the heap or index files.

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