> Well, bad news. After a few more tries to crash the backend, the whole
> postmaster crashed and didn't rise back.
> It fails to start up reporting "Apr  4 18:53:05 wale 
> postgres[71618]: [9]
> FATAL 2:  XLogWrite: write request is past end of log" to syslog.

Hmmm, the only XLogWrite startup process should be doing is
when writing final checkpoint after successful REDO.

> > Could you try to reproduce failure with wal_debug = 1 and
> > post me postmaster' log?
> I'll do it after I succeed in bringing the postmaster up.

Please try to startup with wal_debug = 1 and post us log.

Vadim
 

Wed, 4 Apr 2001 16:05:32 -0700 
"Mikheev, Vadim" <vmikheev@SECTORBASE.COM>
RE: [BUGS] Loosing files after backend crash 