this is 7.3.3 (PGDG rpm's) on red hat 7.2:

i had a lot of debugging enabled.  i went to create an index, and pgsql 
dumped on me.  i tried restarting several times - no luck.

starting postgresql gives

LOG:  database system shutdown was interrupted at 2004-07-16 01:11:56 EDT
LOG:  checkpoint record is at 0/53A3FC0
LOG:  redo record is at 0/53A3FC0; undo record is at 0/0; shutdown TRUE
LOG:  next transaction id: 44321; next oid: 111535
LOG:  database system was not properly shut down; automatic recovery in 
progress
LOG:  ReadRecord: unexpected pageaddr 0/33A4000 in log file 0, segment 
5, offset 3817472
LOG:  redo is not required
                                                            [  OK  ]
# PANIC:  XLogWrite: write request 0/53A4000 is past end of log 0/53A4000
LOG:  startup process (pid 16068) was terminated by signal 6
LOG:  aborting startup due to startup process failure



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XLogWrite: write request 0/53A4000 is past end of log 0/53A4000