What does it mean when the LSN values are past the end of the log?
LSN stands for log sequence number. Sometimes when this happens you’ll also see the message, transactional database environment cannot be recovered. Log files contain information about transactions, when you see this message it is likely that the application or some other process or systems anomoly may have removed some or all of the log files without properly resetting the database log sequence numbers (LSNs). Log files should never be removed unless explicitly authorized by the db_archive utility or the DB_ENV->log_archive method. Note that those interfaces will never authorize removal of all existing log files. It may also be that an application has created a database file in one transactional environment and then moved it into another transactional environment. While it is possible to create databases in non-transactional environments (for example, when doing bulk database loads) and then move them into transactional environments, once a database has been used in a transactional en
