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======PostgreSQL server won't start due to damaged log files====== | ======PostgreSQL server won't start due to damaged log files====== | ||
- | If the PostgreSQL server won't start at all, because its transaction logs are damaged, you will need to recreate the database store totally. | + | If the PostgreSQL server won't start at all, because its transaction logs are damaged, you will probably |
- | To do this: | + | To rebuild the database: |
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- | * [[restore a backup of VPOP3|Restore the latest good database backup]] | + | - Start the PostgreSQL service in Windows |
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+ | - [[restore a backup of VPOP3|Restore the latest good database backup]] | ||
Once you're happy everything is working OK, you can delete the **data_old** folder. | Once you're happy everything is working OK, you can delete the **data_old** folder. | ||
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+ | If you wish, we can remote into your server and try to recover the data for you, but there will be a [[http:// | ||
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+ | =====Possible Causes===== | ||
+ | The most common causes of this type of corruption are some third party software accessing the pgsql\data folder files - usually a virus scanner or backup or file synchronisation program. Backup programs using the Windows ' | ||
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+ | Note that if you use a backup program which doesn' | ||
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+ | The only files in the pgsql\data folder which should ever be accessed by anything other than PostgreSQL itself are the contents of the '' | ||
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+ | ====Possible alternative solution==== | ||
+ | You **may** be able to use the **[[http:// | ||
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