We were successfully running PostgreSQL 8.0 on Win2003 for several
months without downtime.
Then suddenly PostgreSQL crashed and there were following info in log file
2005-10-09 03:51:10 WARNING: there is no transaction in progress
2005-10-09 03:51:10 WARNING: there is no transaction in progress
2005-10-09 03:51:24 PANIC: could not rename file "C:/Program
Files/PostgreSQL/8.0/data/pg_xlog/0000000100000000000000CD" to "C:/Program
Files/PostgreSQL/8.0/data/pg_xlog/0000000100000000000000D2" (initialization
of log file 0, segment 210): No such file or directory
This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.
Please contact the application's support team for more information.
2005-10-09 03:51:24 LOG: background writer process (PID 3448) was terminated
by signal 3
2005-10-09 03:51:24 LOG: terminating any other active server processes
2005-10-09 03:51:24 WARNING: terminating connection because of crash of
another server process
2005-10-09 03:51:24 DETAIL: The postmaster has commanded this server process
to roll back the current transaction and exit, because another server process
exited abnormally and possibly corrupted shared memory.
2005-10-09 03:51:24 HINT: In a moment you should be able to reconnect to the
database and repeat your command.
2005-10-09 03:51:24 WARNING: terminating connection because of crash of
another server process
2005-10-09 03:51:24 DETAIL: The postmaster has commanded this server process
to roll back the current transaction and exit, because another server process
exited abnormally and possibly corrupted shared memory.
2005-10-09 03:51:24 HINT: In a moment you should be able to reconnect to the
database and repeat your command.
2005-10-09 03:51:24 WARNING: terminating connection because of crash of
another server process
2005-10-09 03:51:24 DETAIL: The postmaster has commanded this server process
to roll back the current transaction and exit, because another server process
exited abnormally and possibly corrupted shared memory.
2005-10-09 03:51:24 HINT: In a moment you should be able to reconnect to the
database and repeat your command.
2005-10-09 03:51:24 WARNING: terminating connection because of crash of
another server process
2005-10-09 03:51:24 DETAIL: The postmaster has commanded this server process
to roll back the current transaction and exit, because another server process
exited abnormally and possibly corrupted shared memory.
2005-10-09 03:51:24 HINT: In a moment you should be able to reconnect to the
database and repeat your command.
2005-10-09 03:51:24 WARNING: terminating connection because of crash of
another server process
2005-10-09 03:51:24 DETAIL: The postmaster has commanded this server process
to roll back the current transaction and exit, because another server process
exited abnormally and possibly corrupted shared memory.
2005-10-09 03:51:24 HINT: In a moment you should be able to reconnect to the
database and repeat your command.
2005-10-09 03:51:24 LOG: all server processes terminated; reinitializing
2005-10-09 03:51:24 LOG: database system was interrupted at 2005-10-09
03:51:24 FLE Daylight Time
2005-10-09 03:51:24 LOG: checkpoint record is at 0/CE030078
2005-10-09 03:51:24 LOG: redo record is at 0/CE030078; undo record is at 0/0;
shutdown FALSE
2005-10-09 03:51:24 LOG: next transaction ID: 140670456; next OID: 3537664
2005-10-09 03:51:24 LOG: database system was not properly shut down;
automatic recovery in progress
2005-10-09 03:51:24 LOG: record with zero length at 0/CE0300B8
2005-10-09 03:51:24 LOG: redo is not required
2005-10-09 03:51:24 PANIC: could not rename file "C:/Program
Files/PostgreSQL/8.0/data/pg_xlog/0000000100000000000000CD" to "C:/Program
Files/PostgreSQL/8.0/data/pg_xlog/0000000100000000000000D2" (initialization
of log file 0, segment 210): No such file or directory
This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.
Please contact the application's support team for more information.
2005-10-09 03:51:24 LOG: startup process (PID 4184) was terminated by signal
3
2005-10-09 03:51:24 LOG: aborting startup due to startup process failure
2005-10-09 03:51:24 LOG: logger shutting down
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What are the reasons for this error?