Thread: Wrap around id failure and after effects

On 26/11/13 07:15, Arun P.L wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We had a wraparound failure in the db and most of the tables and data
> were missing. So we have done a full vacuum in db and after that the
> tables reappeared but now the problem is, all the tables have duplicate
> when listing tables with /dt. And also after the vacuum we recievied the
> following warning.
>
> *INFO:  free space map: 48 relations, 29977 pages stored; 134880 total
> pages needed*
> *DETAIL:  Allocated FSM size: 1000 relations + 20000 pages = 215 kB
> shared memory.*
> *WARNING:  some databases have not been vacuumed in over 2 billion
> transactions*
> *DETAIL:  You may have already suffered transaction-wraparound data loss.*
> *
> *
>
> Is this an error happened between the vacuum?  If so what can be done
> next to prevent data loss? The vacuum was not done as superuser, we are
> doing a second time vacuum as superuser now. And what are the further
> steps to be followed now like reindexing,etc?


1. Did you take a full file-level backup of things before vacuuming?

2. What version?

3. How far back in the logs do the warnings go (you should have been
receiving warnings for a long time)?

4. How/why had you disabled/altered the autovacuum daemon?

This shouldn't really be possible without disabling autovaccuum or
configuring it strangely.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/routine-vacuuming.html#VACUUM-FOR-WRAPAROUND


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   Richard Huxton
   Archonet Ltd