Re: Temporary table has become problematically persistent - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Temporary table has become problematically persistent
Date
Msg-id 7820.1588636458@sss.pgh.pa.us
Whole thread Raw
In response to Temporary table has become problematically persistent  (Ricky Ramirez <ricky@reddit.com>)
Responses Re: Temporary table has become problematically persistent  (Ricky Ramirez <ricky@reddit.com>)
List pgsql-general
Ricky Ramirez <ricky@reddit.com> writes:
> We have run into a strange situation with our database. A temporary table
> was created some time ago and that session has since died. However, the
> temporary table stuck around. It's been around long enough that postgres
> stopped accepting writes to prevent transaction ID wraparound. Problem is,
> it's a temporary table and the session that it's associated with is gone,
> so we cannot vacuum it nor even drop the table. We even restarted postgres
> and the temporary table was still there!

Hm, what PG version is this?  I thought we'd fixed that hazard quite some
while back.

            regards, tom lane



pgsql-general by date:

Previous
From: Rob Sargent
Date:
Subject: Re: Thoughts on how to avoid a massive integer update.
Next
From: Ricky Ramirez
Date:
Subject: Re: Temporary table has become problematically persistent