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:[email protected]] > 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
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 problem hasn't changed much though - we still don't use the database 'p

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

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: