On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Florian Pflug <f...@phlo.org> wrote:
> On Nov9, 2011, at 23:53 , Daniel Farina wrote: > > I think a novice user would be scared half to death: I know I was the > > first time. That's not a great impression for the project to leave > > for what is not, at its root, a vast defect, and the fact it's > > occurring for people when they use rsync rather than my very sensitive > > backup routines is indication that it's not very corner-ey. > > Just to emphasize the non-conerish-ness of this problem, it should be > mentioned that the HS issue was observed even with backups taken with > pg_basebackup, if memory serves correctly. > Yes I personally can reliably reproduce both the clog+subtrans problems using pg_basebackup, and can confirm that the "oldestActiveXid_fixed.v2.patch" does resolve both issues.