Hi all,
I'm running postgres 7.4.5 on a linux box, this morning I got this error on my logs:
WARNING: FlushRelationBuffers("exp_provider", 1836): block 1460 is referenced (private 0, global 1)
ERROR: FlushRelationBuffers returned -2
DEBUG: AbortCurrentTransaction
PANIC: cannot abort transaction 354676201, it was already committed
after the recovery:
ERROR: could not access status of transaction 352975274
DEBUG: AbortCurrentTransaction
this messages for 5 hours
I had my verbosity equal to terse ( I run the server with debug2 level ) so I didn't see the
exactly reason for this, after putting verbosity to "verbose" I got the entire message:
ERROR: 58P01: could not access status of transaction 352975274
DETAIL: could not open file "/var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_clog/0150": No such file or directory
LOCATION: SlruReportIOError, slru.c:609
DEBUG: 00000: AbortCurrentTransaction
LOCATION: PostgresMain, postgres.c:2721
In the pg_clog directory I had only the file 0152 !
I had to create a 8k file with zeroes and I discover the offset:
ERROR: XX000: could not access status of transaction 352975274
DETAIL: could not read from file "/var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_clog/0150" at offset 155648: Success
LOCATION: SlruReportIOError, slru.c:630
DEBUG: 00000: AbortCurrentTransaction
LOCATION: PostgresMain, postgres.c:2721
After creating that file till to cover that offset the problem seems be fixed.
Info for hackers: exp_provider is an index and during that message a reindex was in place.
Some questions:
What about the 0151 file?
Don't you think that even with verbosity terse the message about the file missing shall appear ?
Why emit the offset only if the file was found ?
I have to thank Neil Conway that was helping me on IRC about this error.
If you need further infos, please let me know.
Regards
Gaetano Mendola
