Re: Out of space

Of course, I was planning to upgrade but as with most things, too little,
too late...

At this point, I just want to keep it running until I can move to my planned
new platform. Can you tell me where to start with CHECKPOINT?

If it's any help, my problem appears to be a missing file. This is from my
pg_log:

DEBUG: database system was shut down at 2004-04-07 12:14:38 CDT
DEBUG: CheckPoint record at (1, 516646732)
DEBUG: Redo record at (1, 516646732); Undo record at (0, 0); Shutdown TRUE
DEBUG: NextTransactionId: 28728439; NextOid: 9098648
FATAL 2: ZeroFill(/var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_xlog/xlogtemp.1091) failed: No
such file or directory
/usr/bin/postmaster: Startup proc 1091 exited with status 512 - abort

Thanks

Tom Bakken
Information Resource Manager
Texas USDA, Rural Development

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us]
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 2:46 PM
To: Tom Bakken
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Out of space

"Tom Bakken" <tom(dot)bakken(at)tx(dot)usda(dot)gov> writes:
> I'm not finding any mention of CHECKPOINT in my references. Is that
> something from a version newer than 7.1.2?

You're running 7.1.2? My, that *is* an old installation. You really
ought to think about an update, particularly if you might be approaching
the 4-billion-transaction event horizon. You do not want to suffer XID
wraparound in a 7.1 installation :-(. See this link for explanations:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/maintenance.html#VACUUM-FOR-WRAPAR
OUND

7.1 does have the CHECKPOINT command, though, whether you see it
documented or not.

regards, tom lane