Re: could not truncate directory "pg_subtrans": apparent wraparound

From: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Dan Langille <dan(at)langille(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: could not truncate directory "pg_subtrans": apparent wraparound
Date: 2015-06-05 22:12:53
Message-ID: CAEepm=3rJd8XcyLeY14-cMbByhLe1UjYX-iScGMozPs567oXmA@mail.gmail.com
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On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 9:45 AM, Dan Langille <dan(at)langille(dot)org> wrote:
> I noticed this today on my 9.4.2 server running on FreeBSD 10.1:
>
> Jun 5 18:59:40 slocum postgres[986]: [3957-1] LOG: could not truncate directory "pg_subtrans": apparent wraparound
>
> Looking at a post from 2010, Tom Lane suggest this information was useful:
>
> [root(at)slocum:/usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_subtrans] # ls -l
> total 1
> -rw------- 1 pgsql pgsql 8192 Jun 5 19:04 0032
>
> This not not a high throughput server.

It looks like subtrantransactions may have a fencepost error similar
to multixacts, described here:

http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAEepm=0DqAtnM=23OQ44BbnwvN3g6+DXx+s5g4JRBP-VY8gEwQ@mail.gmail.com

I will try to repro this.

--
Thomas Munro
http://www.enterprisedb.com

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