Re: db recovery (FATAL 2)

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bojan Belovic <bbelovic(at)usa(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: db recovery (FATAL 2)
Date: 2002-05-09 14:09:11
Message-ID: 19177.1020953351@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bojan Belovic <bbelovic(at)usa(dot)net> writes:
> One quick question - you mentioned I should upgrade to 7.1.3 beofre I run
> vacuum again. What are the known problems that "ask" for this?

WAL growth. My original theory was that you'd run out of disk space
because of a VACUUM trying to do a huge amount of work. In 7.1.2
the WAL can grow arbitrarily large during a long transaction...

There are some other not-unimportant bug fixes in 7.1.3 too, but that's
the one I was thinking of.

regards, tom lane

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