Re: Transaction wraparound problem with database postgres - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: Transaction wraparound problem with database postgres
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Msg-id 20080321142208.486b8be9@commandprompt.com
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In response to Transaction wraparound problem with database postgres  ("Markus Wollny" <Markus.Wollny@computec.de>)
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On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:50:57 +0100
"Markus Wollny" <Markus.Wollny@computec.de> wrote:

> That's what I just did, but the problem persists. Whenever I issue a
> 'vacuum', the number of transactions simply decreases. 
> 
> This is PostgreSQL 8.2.4 on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC
> gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)
> 
> I am absolutely lost about what to do now - and it's a puzzle how
> this could have happened in the first place. I have configured
> autovaccum AND I run a vacuum verbose analyze over all databases
> every single night. What do I do now? Is there some alternative to
> reinit and going back to the last dump?
> 
> Urgent help would be very much appreciated. 
> 

Vacuum every database. (template1,postgres too). This could happen if
you have long running transactions that are not allow VACUUM to
actually work.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake


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> 
>    Markus
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