"Andrew M. Danneffel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The server is a > cobalt RaQ4 running Red Hat Linux.
A version number for Postgres would be the useful tidbit here. > 020111.16:00:01.144 [7651] FATAL 2: Control file context is broken This error indicates that one of three fields in pg_control has a bogus value. The only failures hereabouts that we've heard reported from the field involve a silly timestamp. Is it possible that the system clock was set to a silly value (ie, < 1970) last time you shut down? If so, you could recover by commenting out the relevant check in src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org