2021-09-10 17:22:42.417183T @ startup 00000 [2021-09-10 17:22:42 CST] 0 [9298] LOCATION: StartupXLOG, xlog.c:6347 2021-09-10 17:22:42.417206T @ startup XX000 [2021-09-10 17:22:42 CST] 0 [9298] FATAL: XX000: required WAL directory "pg_wal" does not exist 2021-09-10 17:22:42.417206T @ startup XX000 [2021-09-10 17:22:42 CST] 0 [9298] LOCATION: ValidateXLOGDirectoryStructure, xlog.c:4262 2021-09-10 17:22:42.417407T @ postmaster 00000 [2021-09-10 17:22:42 CST] 0 [9296] LOG: 00000: startup process (PID 9298) exited with exit code 1 2021-09-10 17:22:42.417407T @ postmaster 00000 [2021-09-10 17:22:42 CST] 0 [9296] LOCATION: LogChildExit, postmaster.c:3714 2021-09-10 17:22:42.417417T @ postmaster 00000 [2021-09-10 17:22:42 CST] 0 [9296] LOG: 00000: aborting startup due to startup process failure 2021-09-10 17:22:42.417417T @ postmaster 00000 [2021-09-10 17:22:42 CST] 0 [9296] LOCATION: reaper, postmaster.c:2969 2021-09-10 17:22:42.427171T @ postmaster 00000 [2021-09-10 17:22:42 CST] 0 [9296] LOG: 00000: database system is shut down 2021-09-10 17:22:42.427171T @ postmaster 00000 [2021-09-10 17:22:42 CST] 0 [9296] LOCATION: UnlinkLockFiles, miscinit.c:928
执行pg_resetwal -f PGDATA可以wal文件，但是会丢失事务日志以及数据不一致，极端情况下某些数据块丢失。此时回初始化WAL文件如下：
[zjh@lightdb1 pgsql13.2]$ cd data/pg_wal/ [zjh@lightdb1 pg_wal]$ ll total 1048576 -rw------- 1 zjh zjh 1073741824 Sep 10 21:44 00000001000000BB00000001 drwx------ 2 zjh zjh 6 Sep 10 21:42 archive_status
再启动PG，备份、重建。
原文：https://www.cnblogs.com/zhjh256/p/15253179.html