Re: getting status transaction error

On 2/6/07, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> around 6:30 this morning, I started getting the following messages in my log:
>
> Feb 6 06:33:34 mojo postgres[1117]: [2-1] :: ERROR: could not access
> status of transaction 544441911
> Feb 6 06:34:35 mojo postgres[1128]: [2-1] :: ERROR: could not access
> status of transaction 544441911
> [...]
>
> repeated roughly once a minute. I've never seen this before. this is
> on postgres 8.1.1 running on fedora core 4 smp. I don't have any
> contextual information yet but I'm getting ready to turn statement
> logging on.
>
> Anybody know what this is?
[x-posting to -hackers]

actually, here is some more relevant bits from the log.
Feb 6 06:31:33 mojo postgres[1088]: [1-1] :: LOG: autovacuum:
processing database "template0"
Feb 6 06:31:33 mojo postgres[1088]: [2-1] :: ERROR: could not access
status of transaction 544441911
Feb 6 06:31:33 mojo postgres[1088]: [2-2] :: DETAIL: could not open
file "pg_clog/0207": No such file or directory

repeated ad-naseum

merlin