Re: panic on 7.3

From: Rick Gigger <rick(at)alpinenetworking(dot)com>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: panic on 7.3
Date: 2006-01-21 03:11:01
Message-ID: C8AB66EA-01B1-42C9-ACA5-4F4F454258E9@alpinenetworking.com
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Thanks. I'm not quite sure what version I am going to upgrade to yet.

Rick

On Jan 20, 2006, at 5:59 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:

>
> Updates for FC1 are available here:
>
> http://download.fedoralegacy.org/fedora/1/updates/i386/
>
> they have 7.3.9 dated in March last year.
>
> Or grab the source for 7.3.13 and build it yourself.
>
> cheers
>
> andrew
>
> Rick Gigger wrote:
>
>> It is the version that shipped with fedora core 1. The version
>> string from psql is (PostgreSQL) 7.3.4-RH. I assume that it must
>> have been the first bug since I had plenty of disk space.
>>
>>
>> On Jan 20, 2006, at 5:35 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> -- -----
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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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