Re: pg_dumpall failure - could not access status of transaction - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Robert Leftwich
Subject Re: pg_dumpall failure - could not access status of transaction
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Msg-id 1170474594.565.1172687911@webmail.messagingengine.com
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In response to Re: pg_dumpall failure - could not access status of transaction  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Fri, 02 Feb 2007 22:28:42 -0500, "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> said:
> This seems like it could indicate either a hardware or operating-system
> flake-out.  Have you tried running hardware diagnostic tests on the
> machine?
>

A couple of weeks back when it had 'invalid page header' problems,
memtest was run on it for 12-15hrs w/o a problem and smartmon didn't
report any errors from the drives - I'll check smartmon again.

Any other tests you would recommend?

Robert

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