All looks according to the logs to me...

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Shoaib Mir
EnterpriseDB (www.enterprisedb.com)

On 12/11/06, Rajesh Kumar Mallah <mallah.rajesh@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi List ,
>
> I restored the filesystem backup tar and ran postgres 7.3.8 on the data
> folder.
> there was no problem at all.
>
> DEBUG: FindExec: found "/opt/usr/local/pgsql7.3/bin/postgres" using
> argv[0]
> DEBUG: invoking IpcMemoryCreate(size=1466368)
> DEBUG: FindExec: found "/opt/usr/local/pgsql7.3/bin/postmaster" using
> argv[0]
> LOG: database system was shut down at 2006-12-04 12:30:21 IST
> LOG: checkpoint record is at 0/39DF3C2C
> LOG: redo record is at 0/39DF3C2C; undo record is at 0/0; shutdown TRUE
> LOG: next transaction id: 2006905; next oid: 15212626
> LOG: database system is ready
> DEBUG: proc_exit(0)
> DEBUG: shmem_exit(0)
> DEBUG: exit(0)
> DEBUG: reaping dead processes
>
> I think the above messages support the fact that the database was shutdown
> properly before the filesystem level backup.
> Can anyone kindly confirm it ?
>
> I listed the tables and did some selects the data seems to be there.
> I think postgres was not starting for some peripheral issues
> not because that data folder was corrupted.
>
> BTW
> when i first started postmaster it gave an error related to
> too liberal permissions. Probably the original poster was doing
> the same mistake.
>
> Regds
> mallah.
>