ERROR: could not access status of transaction - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Thomas F. O'Connell
Subject ERROR: could not access status of transaction
Date
Msg-id 0D7AA6A4-4979-4E6B-ACAA-DE4A33792A90@sitening.com
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I recently saw this in some postgres logs:

ERROR:  could not access status of transaction ...
DETAIL:  could not open file "pg_clog/...": No such file or directory
STATEMENT:  COPY ...

The copy command was issued amongst a number of other queries from an
application layer at the same time as a pg_dumpall was running.

Based on this:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2006-01/msg00287.php

I would not have thought this cluster was vulnerable. It's running
8.1.3. It makes me a little nervous that the nightly backup was
interrupted, but it makes me a little more nervous that it seems
indicative of an abstruse error condition. Any thoughts from the
hackers?

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Thomas F. O'Connell
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