reset xlog on 7.1 ?

[peter pilsl]

Is there a way to reset the xlog on postgres 7.1 ?
Due to complete & intensive braindamage of sysadmin (=me) the whole
pg_xlog-folder has been emptied on a old 7.1-installation.

pg_resetxlog is not part of 7.1-installation and I wonder if there is any other
way to fire postgres up again. (To make my day complete : there arent backups
available also).

by now I get:

Oct 8 21:26:29 linux postgres[14575]: [2] DEBUG: open(logfile 3 seg 18)
failed: No such file or directory
Oct 8 21:26:29 linux postgres[14575]: [3] DEBUG: Invalid primary checkPoint record
Oct 8 21:26:29 linux postgres[14575]: [4] DEBUG: open(logfile 3 seg 17)
failed: No such file or directory
Oct 8 21:26:29 linux postgres[14575]: [5] DEBUG: Invalid secondary checkPoint
record
Oct 8 21:26:29 linux postgres[14575]: [6] FATAL 2: Unable to locate a valid
CheckPoint record
Oct 8 21:26:29 linux postgres[14575]: [7] DEBUG: proc_exit(2)
Oct 8 21:26:29 linux postgres[14575]: [8] DEBUG: shmem_exit(2)
Oct 8 21:26:29 linux postgres[14575]: [9] DEBUG: exit(2)
thnx,
peter

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[Tom Lane]

peter pilsl <pi***@goldfisch.at> writes:

Is there a way to reset the xlog on postgres 7.1 ?

pg_resetxlog exists for 7.1, but it's in contrib not standard.

regards, tom lane

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