Re: 'SGT DETAIL: Could not open file "pg_clog/05DC": No such file or directory' - what to do now?

From: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
To: "Tomasz Chmielewski" <mangoo(at)wpkg(dot)org>
Cc: <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: 'SGT DETAIL: Could not open file "pg_clog/05DC": No such file or directory' - what to do now?
Date: 2011-05-04 19:15:15
Message-ID: 4DC15F73020000250003D2A0@gw.wicourts.gov
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Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo(at)wpkg(dot)org> wrote:

> This repeated many times:
>
> /var/log/postgresql/postgresql_log.1:May 3 18:24:49 db10
> postgres[21363]: [26999-1] 2011-05-03 18:24:49 SGT ERROR: could
> not access status of transaction 1573786613
> /var/log/postgresql/postgresql_log.1-May 3 18:24:49 db10
< postgres[21363]: [26999-2] 2011-05-03 18:24:49 SGT DETAIL: Could
> not open file "pg_clog/05DC": No such file or directory.
> /var/log/postgresql/postgresql_log.1-May 3 18:24:49 db10
> postgres[21363]: [26999-3] 2011-05-03 18:24:49 SGT STATEMENT:
> SELECT 1 FROM core_wot_seq FOR UPDATE
>
>
> Today I have this:
>
> /var/log/postgresql/postgresql_log:May 4 22:43:44 db10
> postgres[15773]: [555-1] 2011-05-04 22:43:44 SGT ERROR: could not
> access status of transaction 1612337841
> /var/log/postgresql/postgresql_log-May 4 22:43:44 db10
> postgres[15773]: [555-2] 2011-05-04 22:43:44 SGT DETAIL: Could
> not open file "pg_clog/0601": No such file or directory.
> /var/log/postgresql/postgresql_log-May 4 22:43:44 db10
> postgres[15773]: [555-3] 2011-05-04 22:43:44 SGT STATEMENT:
> SELECT 1 FROM core_wbl_seq FOR UPDATE
>
> Only such two (different) occurrences; repeated 10-20 times; two
> different tables.

> how should I best recover from this?

If you hadn't already said you were running on 8.3.14 I would have
wondered whether you had used pg_migrator/pg_upgrade. As it is, I'm
going to admit I'm out of my depth and hope someone else jumps in
here.

-Kevin

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