Re: [GENERAL] Restoring fscked up postgres 7.1 - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Martijn van Oosterhout
Subject Re: [GENERAL] Restoring fscked up postgres 7.1
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Msg-id 20050121153001.GC3749@svana.org
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In response to Restoring fscked up postgres 7.1  (Kristaps Armanis <krisha@grafton.lv>)
Responses Re: [GENERAL] Restoring fscked up postgres 7.1
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On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 03:33:28PM +0200, Kristaps Armanis wrote:
> Last night no crash, not anything, just @ one moment all records for
> last year where gone, all ros created for last year & tables created
> while this time - and not in only one database, but all 6 DB's on this
> server.

Looks like XID wraparound, you hit the 4 billion transaction mark. This
was fixed in 7.2 IIRC. Unfortunatly I don't know of an easy way to
recover, but this should give you something to search the archives for.

Hope this helps,
--
Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
> Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a
> tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone
> else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.

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