Re: page 1 of relation global/11787 was uninitialized

On 2013-04-09 19:18:57 +0200, Stephen R. van den Berg wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> >"Stephen R. van den Berg" <srb@cuci.nl> writes:
> >> Just today one of my systems experienced a kernel panic, and halted abruptly.
> >> Running Linux 3.1.9, PostgreSQL 9.0.4 (Debian 9.0.4-1+b1, to be precise).
> 
> >It's conceivable that updating to something more current than 9.0.4
> >would get you out of this --- we've fixed quite a number of WAL replay
> >bugs in the last two years.
> 
> I see that there is a 9.0.13, but that would be a source upgrade, since Debian
> doesn't provide later than 9.0.4 AFAICS.

Afaik debian has never shipped 9.0 in any stable release at all. You can
use the packages provided by the postgres community though, they are
compatible:
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Apt

> I suppose upgrading to 9.1.9 is not recommended in this state, or is
> it?

You can at least try, don't think it will make more problems than you
already have.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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