Re: fatal error on 8.1 server - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tony Caduto
Subject Re: fatal error on 8.1 server
Date
Msg-id 456B3E22.8000308@amsoftwaredesign.com
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In response to Re: fatal error on 8.1 server  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
Responses Re: fatal error on 8.1 server  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Tony Caduto wrote:
>
>> I don't know what the exact version is but I am getting this:
>>
>> FATAL:  database is not accepting commands to avoid wraparound data loss
>> in database "postgres"
>>
>> How can I recover from this and why woud this happen to the postgres
>> database?  Has my server been hacked?  there should be no inserts or
>> anything going on.
>>
>
> Stop the postmaster, start a standalone backend, and issue a
> database-wide VACUUM on database postgres.
>
>
Yep, I saw that in the docs, now I am just having problems finding a
standalone backend, not sure what that means.

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