Re: Limitations on 7.0.3?

From: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
To: ARTEAGA Jose <Jose(dot)Arteaga(at)alcatel-lucent(dot)com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Limitations on 7.0.3?
Date: 2007-06-08 16:38:33
Message-ID: 20070608163833.GB9818@svana.org
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On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 02:32:09PM -0500, ARTEAGA Jose wrote:
> I've looked at the pg_index table and we are currently at 15Mill
> entries, which should be OK. After 2-3 days runtime I just get a
> disconnect error from backend while doing an insert. After I restore the
> DB and insert the same entries it runs fine. Following is the error I
> get:

Note: Version 7.0 *will* eat your data eventually. It has no protection
against XID wraparound, you'll just start noticing data disappearing.

From the documentation:
Prior to PostgreSQL 7.2, the only defense against XID wraparound was to
re-initdb at least every 4 billion transactions.

Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate.

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