Sorry for my rushed posting, as I was in a bit of a panic.
We moved the pg_xlog directory over to a 70GB partition, and after 15-20
minutes the automatic recovery finished. Everything is working fine
now.
I would still appreciate a PG guru explaining how to estimate size for a
pg_xlog partition. It seems like it can vary considerably depending on
how intensive your current transactions are. Is there a way to
determine a maximum?
On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 11:06:46 -0500, "Jeremy Haile" <jhaile@fastmail.fm>
said:
> I created a 10GB partition for pg_xlog and ran out of disk space today
> during a long running update. My checkpoint_segments is set to 12, but
> there are 622 files in pg_xlog. What size should the pg_xlog partition
> be?
>
> Postmaster is currently not starting up (critical for my organization)
> and reports "FATAL: The database system is starting up" .
>
> The log reports:
> 2006-12-22 10:50:09 LOG: checkpoint record is at 2E/87A323C8
> 2006-12-22 10:50:09 LOG: redo record is at 2E/8729A6E8; undo record is
> at 0/0; shutdown FALSE
> 2006-12-22 10:50:09 LOG: next transaction ID: 0/25144015; next OID:
> 140986
> 2006-12-22 10:50:09 LOG: next MultiXactId: 12149; next MultiXactOffset:
> 24306
> 2006-12-22 10:50:09 LOG: database system was not properly shut down;
> automatic recovery in progress
> 2006-12-22 10:50:09 LOG: redo starts at 2E/8729A6E8
>
>
> This has been running for 20 minutes. What can I do? Please help!
>
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