Re: [GENERAL] Transaction wraparound problem with database postgres

2010-03-08 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Markus Wollny wrote: > Hi! > > After going several months without such incidents, we now got bit by the same > problem again. We have since upgraded the hardware we ran the database > cluster on and currently use version 8.3.7. The general outline of the > proble

Re: [GENERAL] Transaction wraparound problem with database postgres

2010-03-08 Thread Markus Wollny
Hi! > From: Scott Marlowe [mailto:scott.marl...@gmail.com] > Do your logs show any kind of error when vacuuming about > "only owner can vacuum" a table or anything? I grepped through the logs from the last four days and, no, there were none such errors whatsoever. Last vacuum analyze run retu

Re: [GENERAL] Transaction wraparound problem with database postgres

2010-03-07 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Markus Wollny wrote: > Hi! > > After going several months without such incidents, we now got bit by the same > problem again. We have since upgraded the hardware we ran the database > cluster on and currently use version 8.3.7. The general outline of the > proble

Re: [GENERAL] Transaction wraparound problem with database postgres

2010-03-07 Thread Markus Wollny
27; > Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org > Betreff: AW: [GENERAL] Transaction wraparound problem with > database postgres > > Tom Lane wrote: > > "Markus Wollny" writes: > >> I'd still like to find out what exactly happened here so I can > >> prevent t

Re: [GENERAL] Transaction wraparound problem with database postgres

2008-03-21 Thread Markus Wollny
Tom Lane wrote: > "Markus Wollny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I'd still like to find out what exactly happened here so I can >> prevent the same from happening again in the future. > > Me too. It would seem that something did a vacuum of postgres with a > strange choice of xid cutoff, but I ca

Re: [GENERAL] Transaction wraparound problem with database postgres

2008-03-21 Thread Markus Wollny
Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum wrote: > Hello, > First of all, it would help you and most of the readers on this list, > if you have the error messages in english. There is a german > mailinglist too, if you want to ask in german. Sorry, I tried to describe the issue as best as I could and included the

Re: [GENERAL] Transaction wraparound problem with database postgres

2008-03-21 Thread Tom Lane
"Markus Wollny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sorry for the quick updates to my own messages, but I didn't want to > lean back and wait - so I took to more aggressive measures. All my > other databases in this cluster are fine - and the 'postgres' database > doesn't seem to do anything really usefu

Re: [GENERAL] Transaction wraparound problem with database postgres

2008-03-21 Thread Markus Wollny
Hi! Thanks for all the quick replies :) Tom Lane wrote: > "Markus Wollny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Just some more info, hoping that it helps with a diagnosis: > >> 1: datname (typeid = 19, len = 64, typmod = -1, byval = f) >> 2: age (typeid = 23, len = 4, typmod = -1, byval =

Re: [GENERAL] Transaction wraparound problem with database postgres

2008-03-21 Thread Markus Wollny
Hi! Sorry for the quick updates to my own messages, but I didn't want to lean back and wait - so I took to more aggressive measures. All my other databases in this cluster are fine - and the 'postgres' database doesn't seem to do anything really useful except being the default database. I drop

Re: [GENERAL] Transaction wraparound problem with database postgres

2008-03-21 Thread Tom Lane
"Markus Wollny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just some more info, hoping that it helps with a diagnosis: > 1: datname (typeid = 19, len = 64, typmod = -1, byval = f) > 2: age (typeid = 23, len = 4, typmod = -1, byval = t) > 3: datfrozenxid(typeid = 28, len = 4, typ

Re: [GENERAL] Transaction wraparound problem with database postgres

2008-03-21 Thread Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum
Hello, On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:50:57 +0100 Markus Wollny wrote: > My database cluster has just stopped working. I get the following message: > psql: FATAL: Datenbank nimmt keine Befehle an, um Datenverlust in Datenbank > »postgres« wegen Transaktionsnummernüberlauf zu vermeiden > TIP: Halten S

Re: [GENERAL] Transaction wraparound problem with database postgres

2008-03-21 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:50:57 +0100 "Markus Wollny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's what I just did, but the problem persists. Whenever I issue a > 'vacuum', the number of transactions simply decreases. > > This is PostgreSQL 8.2.4 on x86_64-unkn

[GENERAL] Transaction wraparound problem with database postgres

2008-03-21 Thread Markus Wollny
Hi! My database cluster has just stopped working. I get the following message: psql: FATAL: Datenbank nimmt keine Befehle an, um Datenverlust in Datenbank »postgres« wegen Transaktionsnummernüberlauf zu vermeiden TIP: Halten Sie den Postmaster an und verwenden Sie ein Standalone-Backend, um V

Re: [GENERAL] Transaction wraparound problem with database postgres

2008-03-21 Thread Markus Wollny
Hi! Just some more info, hoping that it helps with a diagnosis: 1: datname (typeid = 19, len = 64, typmod = -1, byval = f) 2: age (typeid = 23, len = 4, typmod = -1, byval = t) 3: datfrozenxid(typeid = 28, len = 4, typmod = -1, byval = t) 1: