Re: Help me recovering data

From: Gaetano Mendola <mendola(at)bigfoot(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Help me recovering data
Date: 2005-02-17 01:56:54
Message-ID: cv0tlg$2gj7$1@news.hub.org
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Greg Stark wrote:
> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
>
>
>>Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I wonder if I should point out that we just had 3 people suffering XID
>>>wraparound failure in 2 days in the IRC channel...
>>
>>I have had half a dozen new customers in the last six months that have
>>had the same problem. Nothing like the phone call:
>
>
> How are so many people doing so many transactions so soon after installing?
>
> To hit wraparound you have to do a billion transactions? ("With a `B'") That
> takes real work. If you did 1,000 txn/minute for every minute of every day it
> would still take a couple years to get there.

We do ~4000 txn/minute so in 6 month you are screewd up...

Regards
Gaetano Mendola

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