Re: Orphan TOAST object

From: "James Farrugia" <james(dot)farrugia(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Orphan TOAST object
Date: 2008-05-12 14:41:22
Message-ID: 8d01be800805120741h6bba86d5p30bc54e6daa184e9@mail.gmail.com
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Problem has now been solved. Thanks a lot for all your help.

On 5/12/08, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> "James Farrugia" <james(dot)farrugia(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > One last thing...can we run into data-loss problems with successfully
> > vacuumed tables even if there is one unvacuumed database object; what
> would
> > have happened if I ignored to vacuum that rogue pg_toast (which was the
> only
> > unvacuumed object within the entire database)?
>
> The database would have shut down when you got to the
> 2-billion-transactions mark. So you'd have had to solve the problem
> sooner or later anyway.
>
> regards, tom lane
>

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