Re: strange disappearence of postgres file - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: strange disappearence of postgres file
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Msg-id 20051123121516.GA22682@surnet.cl
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In response to Re: strange disappearence of postgres file  (Harald Armin Massa <haraldarminmassa@gmail.com>)
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Harald Armin Massa wrote:
> Hello QuingQing,
>
> > What is your file system, NTFS or FAT32? Is that table newly created?
>
> File System is NTFS. That table was created with database installation,
> which was short after after release of PostgreSQL 8.0 - so that database was
> in use for > 9 months. That table is a central table of the application, and
> is used very often ... the application was running for the whole 9 months :)

How many database-wide vacuums did you run during these 9 months?  I'm
smelling transaction Id wraparound in pg_class or some other system
catalog.

This has been known to happen.  Please see the archives.

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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