On Feb 8, 2008 1:37 PM, Mark Steben <msteben@autorevenue.com> wrote:
> The doc says to do an initdb and reload the data whenever you run
> pg_resetxlog. Do you concur with that even if we are only resetting the OID
> counter?
On 7.4 I'd say you'd be better off dumping and reloading all your data
than playing with pg_resetxlog on a live database. Might as well
update to 7.4.19 while you're at it.
I'd run a dump restore to a test machine running 7.4.19 first to make
sure it will go well, or get another server that can handle the load,
or make a new 7.4.19 instance on the same machine and transfer to
that. But if it's a production database I wouldn't run pg_resetxlog
on it myself.