Re: Point-In-Time Recovery not working

I've tried to follow the directions as closely as possible, but still
the server won't start. I do get a different PANIC:

2011-08-26 23:55:08 CEST LOG:  database system was shut down at
2011-08-26 22:08:35 CEST
2011-08-26 23:55:08 CEST LOG:  starting archive recovery
2011-08-26 23:55:08 CEST LOG:  restore_command = 'cp
/var/lib/postgresql/8.3/main/archive/%f %p'
cp: cannot stat `/var/lib/postgresql/8.3/main/archive/00000001.history':
No such file or directory
2011-08-26 23:55:08 CEST LOG:  restored log file
"0000000100000001000000EE" from archive
2011-08-26 23:55:08 CEST LOG:  unexpected pageaddr 1/EB01C000 in log
file 1, segment 238, offset 114688
2011-08-26 23:55:08 CEST LOG:  invalid primary checkpoint record
2011-08-26 23:55:08 CEST LOG:  restored log file
"0000000100000001000000EE" from archive
2011-08-26 23:55:08 CEST LOG:  invalid xl_info in secondary checkpoint
record
2011-08-26 23:55:08 CEST PANIC:  could not locate a valid checkpoint record
2011-08-26 23:55:08 CEST LOG:  startup process (PID 8975) was terminated
by signal 6: Aborted
2011-08-26 23:55:08 CEST LOG:  aborting startup due to startup process
failure

Somehow I think the database files I used to restore are inconsistent
with the WAL's. Is there a workaround or am I still doing something
completely foolish?


> Not based very closely on the documentation.  Please read the
> "Recovering using a Continuous Archive Backup" subsection closely
> and follow the directions there.  In particular, initdb is not run
> as part of the recovery.  If you follow the directions step by step,
> you should get farther.  If you still have problems, feel free to
> post again.
>
> -Kevin