Fwd: corrupted files

Hi list!

depressed me gets error messages like these:

2013-07-29 20:57:09 UTC <xaxos_mailer%xaxos_de> ERROR:  could not access status of transaction 8393477

2013-07-29 20:57:09 UTC <xaxos_mailer%xaxos_de> DETAIL:  Could not open file "pg_clog/0008": No such file or directory.

combined with the error output of queries that  do not work.

I looked in pg_clog and correct, 0008 is missing.

On this linux machine on (3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.46-1 x86_64 GNU/Linux) I am using xfs on raid1 on a megacli raid controller with 16 disks, no battery, this is why write through is enabled, no cacheing.

I quite extensively created indices in transactions and removed those within these transactions to do fast deletes (foreign key constraints) before i got the error???

Now it might be that the memory on the server is corrupt? dunno, but i think it's the only 'cheap' part in the whole game.

* tried to get one of the warm standby's up but one complains about not being the same pg cluster as the 'wal files'. the other hot standby won't start for some locale reason.

(it's not that I did not have backups ;) ).

the cluster is 'working', i get the error around 1/sec but the other clients seem fine, so it's really only a few tables that are corrupted. I cannot really take down the machine as it's quite a busy few million queries a day cluster.

before the current error, i got some error that XXXXX.1 was missing which was (luckily) an index file that i could recreate via 'reindex', but i fear we're now at a table / transaction corruption which i cannot just 'rewrite'.

I would not at all mind just discarding all those transactions that have accumulated in pg_clog

Is there any way, even with data loss to get rid of those transactions and just let the cluster behave again? It's serving some web-apps for users so some minor data loss will not be the issue.

quite desperate...

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thx in advance,

klaus