Re: We are facing "PANIC: could not read from control file:Successerror while starting the database. - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Andreas Kretschmer
Subject Re: We are facing "PANIC: could not read from control file:Successerror while starting the database.
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Msg-id 700ceea7-8be6-796f-9aa7-6aa7cf816de0@a-kretschmer.de
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In response to We are facing "PANIC: could not read from control file:Success errorwhile starting the database.  (Raghavendra Rao J S V <raghavendrajsv@gmail.com>)
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Am 04.10.2018 um 17:29 schrieb Raghavendra Rao J S V:
> Hi All,
>
> *archive_mode *is turned *on *unfortunately in my Postgres 9.2 database.
>
> Due to that disk space is full 100%. We have removed few old xlog 
> files. Now space is available.But still we are facing below problem 
> when we try to start the database.
>

Don't delete WAL-files!

If you don't want the archive_mode you can set it to off (restart 
required) or set archive_command to, for instance: "cd ." or 
"/bin/true", that requires only a reload.
After some time (checkpoint) the files will disappear and the space 
should be back.



Regards, Andreas

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