Re: fatal error on 8.1 server

From: Tony Caduto <tony_caduto(at)amsoftwaredesign(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: fatal error on 8.1 server
Date: 2006-11-27 19:36:02
Message-ID: 456B3E22.8000308@amsoftwaredesign.com
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> 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.
>
>
Yep, I saw that in the docs, now I am just having problems finding a
standalone backend, not sure what that means.

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