transaction status error

From: "Mark Steben" <msteben(at)autorevenue(dot)com>
To: <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: transaction status error
Date: 2008-06-03 19:37:43
Message-ID: 002401c8c5b1$4b188300$14010a0a@dei26g028575
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Hi, I'm running 7.4.5 on a secondary remote database (running 8.2.5
everywhere else)

This morning I was vacuuming template1 and the other databases on this
machine.

The postgres logs indicated that it removed a substantial number of commit
logs,

Presumably because they were obsolete: The message was:


LOG: removing file "/var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_clog/07E7"

Jun 3 09:37:59 supra postgres[19928]: [242-1] LOG: removing file
"/var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_clog/0802"

Jun 3 09:37:59 supra postgres[19928]: [243-1] LOG: removing file
"/var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_clog/07E1"

Jun 3 09:37:59 supra postgres[19928]: [244-1] LOG: removing file
"/var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_clog/07B7"

It removed some 100 of these logs.

A little later when I attempted to vacuum template0 I get the following
error:

ERROR: could not access status of transaction 2065424697

] DETAIL: could not open file "/var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_clog/07B1": No such
file or directory

Pointing to a commit log that had indeed been removed.

The end result: As far as I can tell, I have access to all the databases,
including template1, which I can copy from successfully in creating

New databases. But The template0 database seems to be hosed. I can do a
CREATE DATABASE from template0 but the new database

Gets the same access status error.

We are ok unless we access template0. And yes, we plan to upgrade to 8.x
sometime next month. In the meantime, any ideas on how

To fix this?

Thank you,

Mark Steben

Senior Database Administrator
@utoRevenueT
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