See section 8.2.3 of the admin guide (v7.3) "Preventing transaction ID
wraparound failures"
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ari Jolma" <Ari.Jolma@hut.fi>
To: <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 1:44 AM
Subject: [ADMIN] transaction-wraparound data loss
> Brian E. Pangburn asked some time ago about getting the warning
>
> WARNING: Some databases have not been vacuumed in over 2 billion
transactions.
> You may have already suffered transaction-wraparound data loss.
>
> while doing a routine vacuum. Tom Lane answered but did not have an
> answer right away.
>
> I got the same message from my redhat installed
> postgresql-server-7.3.2-3. I tried a vacuum after this message and did
> not get any warnings.
>
> This is my pg_database.
>
> template1=# select * from pg_database;
> datname | datdba | encoding | datistemplate | datallowconn |
> datlastsysoid | datvacuumxid | datfrozenxid | datpath | datconfig |
> datacl
> -----------+--------+----------+---------------+--------------+-----------
----+--------------+--------------+---------+-----------+-----------------
> clime | 100 | 0 | f | t |
> 16974 | 3226 | 3221228699 | | |
> template1 | 1 | 0 | t | t |
> 16974 | 3449 | 3221228922 | | |
{=,postgres=CT}
> template0 | 1 | 0 | t | f |
> 16974 | 427 | 427 | | |
{=,postgres=CT}
> (3 rows)
>
> Regards,
>
> Ari
>
> **
>
> --
> Ari Jolma, Ari.Jolma@hut.fi, Professor of Geoinformatics
> Cartography and Geoinformatics, Helsinki University of Technology
> POBox 1200, 02015 TKK, Finland
> http://www.hut.fi/Units/Cartography
>
>
>
> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
> TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ?
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html
>
>