"Matthew T. O'Connor" <matthew@zeut.net> writes:
>> On Monday 04 August 2008 11:04:00 pm Robert Shaw wrote:
>>> "WARNING: database "mydb" must be vacuumed within 177009986 transactions
>>> HINT: To avoid a database shutdown, execute a full-database VACUUM in
>>> "mydb".
> BTW, what version of PostgreSQL is this? Database-wide vacuum is no
> longer required for XID wraparound issues. I think this was an 8.3
> change but might have happened in 8.2, I don't remember.
8.2. But you could still get that message, even in CVS HEAD, if
autovacuum was failing to complete for some reason (and had been
failing for quite a long time).
regards, tom lane