Re: transactoin id wraparound problem

What exactly permissions are required to vacuum every table including
system catalogs ?

Thanks , -alex

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From: pgsql-admin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
[mailto:pgsql-admin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Tom Lane
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 9:41 AM
To: Sriram Dandapani
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] transactoin id wraparound problem

"Sriram Dandapani" <sdandapani(at)counterpane(dot)com> writes:
> I get error messages on the console that says
> WARNING: database "xxx" must be vacuumed within 10094646 transactions

> I shutdown, restart pg and issue a vacuumdb -f <database>

The shutdown/restart was a waste of typing, and -f doesn't really help
here either.

> I still get messages saying database must be vacuumed and the
> transaction count keeps decreasing.

I'll bet a nickel you did not run the vacuum as superuser. It has to be
done by a superuser to have permission to vacuum every table in the
database (including system catalogs).

regards, tom lane

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