Re: Database OID xxxxx now seems to belong to "foo"

I'm running 8.2.0 on Linux.

The postgres.conf has...

#autovacuum = off

(commented out) which lead me to believe that by default, it's on. And
I'm assuming that it's vacumming the system tables. Are these
assumptions right?

Thanks
-dave

-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
[mailto:pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Tom Lane
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 11:10 AM
To: Gauthier, Dave
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Database OID xxxxx now seems to belong to "foo"

"Gauthier, Dave" <dave(dot)gauthier(at)intel(dot)com> writes:
> I tried vacuum pg_database, no luck. I shut down and restarted the
DB
> and it seems to have fixed the problem. Still, not sure why it
happened
> in the first place or how to prevent it in the future.

My recollection is that that's a symptom of lack of vacuuming, in PG
versions that are too old to have automatic defenses against such
DBA misfeasance. Check whether your routine vacuuming procedures
cover the system catalogs...

regards, tom lane