Re: Cannot use a standalone backend to VACUUM in "postgres""

From: Manuel Sugawara <masm(at)fciencias(dot)unam(dot)mx>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Cannot use a standalone backend to VACUUM in "postgres""
Date: 2008-04-08 19:31:42
Message-ID: m37if8ywgx.fsf@conexa.fciencias.unam.mx
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:

> Manuel Sugawara wrote:
>
> Hi Manuel,
>
>> The funny thing is that there was no open transactions, even after
>> restarting the cluster the same message was logged. Today, the
>> database stopped working as expected:
>>
>> ERROR: database is shut down to avoid wraparound data loss in database "postgres"
>> HINT: Stop the postmaster and use a standalone backend to VACUUM in "postgres"
>
> I suggest you look for temp tables that have not been reclaimed. We've
> had a couple of reports where leftover temp tables have stopped the
> frozen-xid counter from advancing. (They would have a very old
> relfrozenxid.)

In each database executed:

select relname, age(relfrozenxid) from pg_class where relnamespace = '10406'::oid;

(note that 10406 is the oid of the pg_temp_1 namespace) none of them
showed temp tables, Is this the correct way?, Any other idea?.

Regards,
Manuel.

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