Re: [GENERAL] Lost databases

2004-11-17 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
Look at the documentation here: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/interactive/maintenance.html The upshot is that you should vacuum every table in the database at least once every billion transaction. It doesn't have to be a VACUUM FULL, just run VACUUM without specifying a table. There's some

Re: [GENERAL] Lost databases

2004-11-16 Thread Kostis Mentzelos
Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: Let's start with the version of postgresql you're using. Next, were you running VACUUM FULL regularly? It sounds like XID wraparound to me, no idea how to solve that. Got backups? On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 12:56:33PM +0200, Liviu BURCUSEL wrote: Hi ! I'm in the ultimate

Re: [GENERAL] Lost databases

2004-11-10 Thread Liviu BURCUSEL
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 08:11:01 -0800 (PST) Jeff Eckermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Liviu BURCUSEL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi ! > > > > I'm in the ultimate state of dispair. Over the night > > some of my > > databases just disapeared. But they did not dissaper > > totally. I can >

Re: [GENERAL] Lost databases

2004-11-10 Thread Jeff Eckermann
--- Liviu BURCUSEL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi ! > > I'm in the ultimate state of dispair. Over the night > some of my > databases just disapeared. But they did not dissaper > totally. I can > still connect to them but I cannot dump them. When > doing a "select * > from pg_database" I see onl

Re: [GENERAL] Lost databases

2004-11-10 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
Let's start with the version of postgresql you're using. Next, were you running VACUUM FULL regularly? It sounds like XID wraparound to me, no idea how to solve that. Got backups? On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 12:56:33PM +0200, Liviu BURCUSEL wrote: > Hi ! > > I'm in the ultimate state of dispair. Ove

[GENERAL] Lost databases

2004-11-10 Thread Liviu BURCUSEL
Hi ! I'm in the ultimate state of dispair. Over the night some of my databases just disapeared. But they did not dissaper totally. I can still connect to them but I cannot dump them. When doing a "select * from pg_database" I see only 2 databases I hardly ever use (they are used once in a couple o