Re: Close open transactions soon to avoid wraparound problems

Brian Staszewski <brian.staszewski@farheap.com> writes:
> WARNING:  oldest xmin is far in the past
> HINT:  Close open transactions soon to avoid wraparound problems.

Hmm ... which PG version is this?  I think 8.2 will start to complain
about this much earlier than older versions (~ 100M transactions by
default, instead of 1000M).  Though you've probably got a problem
here in any case.

> What's been done so far:
> -Cluster-wide vacuum (these are done nightly, I ran one again just for gp)

Not relevant

> -Ran the following query looking for old/suspicious
> connections/transactions, didn't find anything useful:
> select procpid, datname, client_addr, usename, current_query,
> query_start from pg_stat_activity order by query_start asc;

Most likely the problem transaction is sitting idle and hence has null
query_start.  Try "ps auxww" or local equivalent and look for postgres
processes that are very old and are in "idle in transaction" state.

            regards, tom lane