Re: Error seen when vacuuming pg_largeobject table

Cut and pasted from my screen to the e-mail. I did shutdown postmaster
prior to running postgres standalone. I assume that quit from postgres
backend stops it. I did restart postmaster prior running the psql vacuum
full.

Sorry, forgot to run verbose mode on the commands. I have re-initialized
the DB and restored from a backup. Will send info if it happens again.

Thanks for the help

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us]
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 1:16 PM
To: cjwhite(at)cisco(dot)com
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Error seen when vacuuming pg_largeobject table

"Chris White \(cjwhite\)" <cjwhite(at)cisco(dot)com> writes:
> Here is the info. I am running 7.2.1.

7.2.1 is a bit long in the tooth; you really ought to be running 7.2.4
if you are still in the 7.2 series. However I don't think that has much
to do with your immediate problem.

The only thing that struck me about your transcript is that you didn't
show shutting down and restarting the postmaster. You didn't try to run
a standalone backend concurrently with the postmaster did you? (There
are supposed to be interlocks against that, but maybe they failed.) The
failures sort of look like the standalone backend's changes did not
completely propagate back to the regular database, and that's the only
very plausible mechanism I can think of for that ...

Also, I really wanted to see the output of vacuum verbose. Just
"vacuum" doesn't tell anything much.

regards, tom lane