Re: Need help to restore database

Lori, Giancarlo wrote:

> A client system based on pgsql is down because the database raise an
> error message like " no left space on device". We have deleted some log
> files on this machine and after a system restart the db (and the system)
> was up&running. After two days the database has crashed again. Looking
> the postgres log there was an error on xlog file (I have inspected the
> directory pg_xlog and no files I found it). I'll try to re-build the
> xlog file with pg_resetxlog. The utilities has created a new xlog file,
> the postmaster process run, but any command pg_dump, etc I try to
> execute failed. The system respond that there are not database in the
> system.

Looks like somebody deleted critical files to get some space back.

> Can anyone help us ?

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