Re: panic on 7.3

Updates for FC1 are available here:

http://download.fedoralegacy.org/fedora/1/updates/i386/

they have 7.3.9 dated in March last year.

Or grab the source for 7.3.13 and build it yourself.

cheers

andrew

Rick Gigger wrote:

> It is the version that shipped with fedora core 1.  The version  
> string from psql is (PostgreSQL) 7.3.4-RH.  I assume that it must  
> have been the first bug since I had plenty of disk space.
>
>
> On Jan 20, 2006, at 5:35 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
>> Rick Gigger wrote:
>>
>>> Postgres version 7.3.4
>>>
>>> ... a whole bunch of other files....
>>> -rw-------  1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 18 22:42 027D
>>> -rw-------  1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 19 07:38 027E
>>> -rw-------  1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 19 08:25 027F
>>> -rw-------  1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 19 09:07 0280
>>> -rw-------  1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 19 09:59 0281
>>> -rw-------  1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 19 11:07 0282
>>> -rw-------  1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 19 12:22 0283
>>> -rw-------  1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 19 13:29 0284
>>> -rw-------  1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 19 14:26 0285
>>> -rw-------  1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 19 15:58 0286
>>> -rw-------  1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 19 19:55 0287
>>> -rw-------  1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 19 23:47 0288
>>> -rw-------  1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 20 02:35 0289
>>> -rw-------  1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 20 04:21 028A
>>> -rw-------  1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 20 06:16 028B
>>> -rw-------  1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 20 07:20 028C
>>> -rw-------  1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 20 08:22 028D
>>> -rw-------  1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 20 09:24 028E
>>> -rw-------  1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 20 10:24 028F
>>> -rw-------  1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 20 11:04 0290
>>> -rw-------  1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 20 11:50 0291
>>> -rw-------  1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 20 13:27 0292
>>> -rw-------  1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 20 14:24 0293
>>> -rw-------  1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 20 14:53 0294
>>> -rw-------  1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 20 17:10 0295
>>>
>>> That is right now.  Right after it started up it went up to 0292.
>>> There are a lot of files before the ones listed here right now
>>> though.  Do you need to see their names?
>>
>>
>> I assume you are missing one of these fixes in 7.3.X current which  were
>> done _after_ 7.3.4 was released:
>>
>>      * Fix race condition in transaction log management
>>        There was a narrow window in which an I/O operation could be
>>        initiated for the wrong page, leading to an Assert
>>        failure or data corruption.
>>
>>      * Repair incorrect order of operations in GetNewTransactionId()
>>        This bug could result in failure under out-of-disk-space
>>        conditions, including inability to restart even after
>>        disk space is freed.
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>> -----
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jan 20, 2006, at 3:58 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>>
>>>> Rick Gigger <rick@alpinenetworking.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> I got this message:
>>>>> 2006-01-20 11:50:51 PANIC:  creation of file /var/lib/pgsql/data/
>>>>> pg_clog/0292 failed: File exists
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> In 7.3.  It caused the server to restart.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Can anyone tell me what it means?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 7.3.what?
>>>>
>>>> What file names exist in the pg_clog directory?
>>>>
>>>>             regards, tom lane
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