Re: RE: [ADMIN] SOS !!: Porstgress forgot all ! Help !

From: "Vadim Mikheev" <vmikheev(at)sectorbase(dot)com>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "'Jean-Arthur Silve'" <jeanarthur(at)eurovox(dot)fr>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: RE: [ADMIN] SOS !!: Porstgress forgot all ! Help !
Date: 2001-02-15 03:16:40
Message-ID: 005201c096fd$b79a2a00$4c79583f@sectorbase.com
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> > Ohhhh, your system reached max transaction ID -:(
>
> That's two reports now of people who have managed to wrap around the XID
> counter. It doesn't seem that hard to do in a heavily used database.
>
> Does anyone want to take more seriously the stopgap solution I proposed
> for this problem (pghackers archives around 3-Nov-00)? I believe you
> shot it down that time, but I don't think that ignoring the problem
> for another release cycle is a better answer.

Actually, I believed that you've done this temp solution till I've found
that it's not true couple weeks ago. If you'll do this please don't forget
about reusing ID of *committed* transactions and crashes - this should
be handled somehow on recovery.

Vadim

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