Re: Problem after upgrade from 9.3.6 to 9.3.(7-8) - Mailing list pgsql-admin

Andrzej Zawadzki wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After upgrade server to version 9.3.7 or 9.3.8 PostgreSQL doesn't start
> and complains like below:
>
> Jun 13 23:16:43 test postgres[1970]: [3-1] db=,user= FATAL:  could not
> access status of transaction 1
> Jun 13 23:16:43 test postgres[1970]: [3-2] db=,user= DETAIL:  Could not
> open file "pg_multixact/offsets/0000": No such file or directory.
> Jun 13 23:16:43 test postgres[1966]: [2-1] db=,user= LOG:  startup
> process (PID 1970) exited with exit code 1
>
> I created this file:
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_multixact/offsets/0000 bs=256K
> count=1
>
> but... I do not know why it happened and whether this is the right solution?

Upgrade to 9.3.9 -- please read the release notes for that.

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