AW: AW: more corruption - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Zeugswetter Andreas SB
Subject AW: AW: more corruption
Date
Msg-id 11C1E6749A55D411A9670001FA687963367FEE@sdexcsrv1.f000.d0188.sd.spardat.at
Whole thread Raw
List pgsql-hackers
> "Hiroshi Inoue" <Inoue@tpf.co.jp> writes:
> >>>> I vacuumed here and it worked. I did not use my "old" 
> pg_log file - what
> >>>> did I lose?
> >> 
> >> Hard to tell.  Any tuples that weren't already marked on 
> disk as "known
> >> committed" have probably gone missing, because their originating
> >> transaction IDs likely won't be shown as committed in the 
> new pg_log.
> >> So I'd look for missing tuples from recent transactions in 
> the old DB.
> >> 
> 
> > Hmm,this may be more serious.
> > MVCC doesn't see committed(marked ) but
> > not yet committed(t_xmin > CurrentTransactionId) tuples.
> > He will see them in the future.

Yes, good point. Is there a way to set CurrentTransactionId to a value
greater that the smallest t_xmin ?

> 
> But he did a vacuum --- won't that get rid of any tuples that aren't
> currently considered committed?

He said that the vacuum was blocking and he thus killed it.
The vacuum was thus only partway done.

Andreas 


pgsql-hackers by date:

Previous
From: Bruce Momjian
Date:
Subject: Re: pg_backup symlink?
Next
From: JanWieck@t-online.de (Jan Wieck)
Date:
Subject: Re: update on TOAST status'