Re: Problem with OID wrap

Tom Lane wrote on Fri, 14 Dec 2001 10:54:09 EST
>Martin Weinberg <weinberg(at)osprey(dot)astro(dot)umass(dot)edu> writes:
>> It seems that OID in one of our databases wrapped during a data
>> load from tape.
>> The wrap is quite plausible based on the volume of the database and
>> the number of tables that have been loaded and reloaded. I would have
>> thought that an OID wrap would be harmless (except in the loss of
>> uniqueness and meaning for any query which depended on this).
>> However, the user complains that part of the table disappeared? Is
>> this possible?
>
>I'd be wondering about transaction ID wrap, myself. You might care
>to consult the discussion of transaction ID wrap in the 7.2 development
>docs (under admin guide "routine maintenance", IIRC).
>

Sound like the best thing to do is to move to 7.2beta as soon as
possible. A dump and a re-initdb will be painful on a regular basis.
The 7.2 strategy seems reasonable and should work fine for us.
Ironically, it turns out that we don't use the transactional features
anyway. Is there a way in the mean time to disable this in 7.1.3?

Thanks Tom!

--Martin