Re: fatal error on 8.1 server

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Tony Caduto <tony_caduto(at)amsoftwaredesign(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: fatal error on 8.1 server
Date: 2006-11-27 19:29:05
Message-ID: 20061127192904.GK9324@alvh.no-ip.org
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Tony Caduto wrote:
> I don't know what the exact version is but I am getting this:
>
> FATAL: database is not accepting commands to avoid wraparound data loss
> in database "postgres"
>
> How can I recover from this and why woud this happen to the postgres
> database? Has my server been hacked? there should be no inserts or
> anything going on.

Stop the postmaster, start a standalone backend, and issue a
database-wide VACUUM on database postgres.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support

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