Re: panic on 7.3

Rick Gigger wrote:
> Postgres version 7.3.4
>
> ... a whole bunch of other files....
> -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 18 22:42 027D
> -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 19 07:38 027E
> -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 19 08:25 027F
> -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 19 09:07 0280
> -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 19 09:59 0281
> -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 19 11:07 0282
> -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 19 12:22 0283
> -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 19 13:29 0284
> -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 19 14:26 0285
> -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 19 15:58 0286
> -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 19 19:55 0287
> -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 19 23:47 0288
> -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 20 02:35 0289
> -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 20 04:21 028A
> -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 20 06:16 028B
> -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 20 07:20 028C
> -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 20 08:22 028D
> -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 20 09:24 028E
> -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 20 10:24 028F
> -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 20 11:04 0290
> -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 20 11:50 0291
> -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 20 13:27 0292
> -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 20 14:24 0293
> -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 20 14:53 0294
> -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 20 17:10 0295
>
> That is right now. Right after it started up it went up to 0292.
> There are a lot of files before the ones listed here right now
> though. Do you need to see their names?

I assume you are missing one of these fixes in 7.3.X current which were
done _after_ 7.3.4 was released:

* Fix race condition in transaction log management
There was a narrow window in which an I/O operation could be
initiated for the wrong page, leading to an Assert
failure or data corruption.

* Repair incorrect order of operations in GetNewTransactionId()
This bug could result in failure under out-of-disk-space
conditions, including inability to restart even after
disk space is freed.

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>
>
> On Jan 20, 2006, at 3:58 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > Rick Gigger <rick(at)alpinenetworking(dot)com> writes:
> >> I got this message:
> >> 2006-01-20 11:50:51 PANIC: creation of file /var/lib/pgsql/data/
> >> pg_clog/0292 failed: File exists
> >
> >> In 7.3. It caused the server to restart.
> >
> >> Can anyone tell me what it means?
> >
> > 7.3.what?
> >
> > What file names exist in the pg_clog directory?
> >
> > regards, tom lane
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