Do you mean that I login as say root and issue a vacuumdb (or do I login
as a postgres user with special privileges)

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 6:41 AM
To: Sriram Dandapani
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] transactoin id wraparound problem 

"Sriram Dandapani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I get error messages on the console that says
> WARNING:  database "xxx" must be vacuumed within 10094646 transactions

> I shutdown, restart pg and issue a vacuumdb -f <database>

The shutdown/restart was a waste of typing, and -f doesn't really help
here either.

> I still get messages saying database must be vacuumed and the
> transaction count keeps decreasing.

I'll bet a nickel you did not run the vacuum as superuser.  It has to be
done by a superuser to have permission to vacuum every table in the
database (including system catalogs).

                        regards, tom lane

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