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Joachim Wieland wrote:
> There have been several reports that people could not vacuum any more or
> observed strange locks even after server restart. The reason was that they
> still had uncommitted prepared transactions around.
>
>
> I wonder if it could help to change the log level from
>
> ereport(LOG,
> (errmsg("recovering prepared transaction %u", xid)));
>
> to WARNING maybe in order to make that message more striking within the
> normal startup messages.
>
>
>
> Joachim
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