Re: [GENERAL] Restoring fscked up postgres 7.1

On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 03:33:28PM +0200, Kristaps Armanis wrote:
> Last night no crash, not anything, just @ one moment all records for
> last year where gone, all ros created for last year & tables created
> while this time - and not in only one database, but all 6 DB's on this
> server.

Looks like XID wraparound, you hit the 4 billion transaction mark. This
was fixed in 7.2 IIRC. Unfortunatly I don't know of an easy way to
recover, but this should give you something to search the archives for.

Hope this helps,
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