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Andrew Sukow wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> Our postgres system crashed and upon restarting it our database had the following 
> errors.  The error log was 4.5 gigs which is much larger than usual.  We looked 
> online for information about lost left siblings and how to fix the data and not lose 
> the 400 million records we have.  Anyone have an idea what's the matter and what the 
> fix is?
> 
> LOG:  database system was interrupted while in recovery at 2004-08-17 08:59:41 PDT
> HINT:  This probably means that some data is corrupted and you will have to use the 
> last backup for recovery.
> LOG:  checkpoint record is at 326/C007B778
> LOG:  redo record is at 326/BD899570; undo record is at 0/0; shutdown FALSE
> LOG:  next transaction ID: 46922114; next OID: 133662911
> LOG:  database system was not properly shut down; automatic recovery in progress
> LOG:  redo starts at 326/BD899570
> PANIC:  btree_split_redo: lost left sibling
> LOG:  startup process (PID 9038) was terminated by signal 6
> LOG:  aborting startup due to startup process failure
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andrew
> 
> 
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