I wrote:
> Reece Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> After a system crash, postgresql 8.1.4 restarted but reported that I
>> have an apparent wraparound:
>> 2006-07-13 14:03:40 PDT [10092] LOG: could not truncate directory
>> "pg_multixact/offsets": apparent wraparound
>> 2006-07-13 14:03:40 PDT [10092] LOG: could not truncate directory
>> "pg_multixact/members": apparent wraparound
> [ looks at code... ] I wonder if this is happening because
> shared->latest_page_number hasn't been set up yet when we do the
> end-of-recovery checkpoint.
Indeed, I was able to reproduce this after advancing the next-mxact
counters far enough. The consequences seem only cosmetic (ie, a scary
log message during recovery), but still worth fixing. I committed a
patch in HEAD and 8.1.
regards, tom lane
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