Re: Vacuum Full (PG 8.1) - Urgent help needed - Cancel & transaction "liberation"

Le 2010-04-19 08:59, Alexandre Leclerc a écrit :
> Le 2010-04-16 19:19, Scott Marlowe a écrit :
>> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Alexandre Leclerc<aleclerc(at)ipso(dot)ca>
>> wrote:
>>> Thank you guys. I wanted to rush and vacuum the other tables and
>>> try, but I
>>> decided to make a copy. This is actually running. (Enough mistakes
>>> in one
>>> day to not take the time to do it.)
>>>
>>> After that we try to launch the DB and hopefully it will be working
>>> good
>>> enough before the next maintenance. Else, a big week-end is coming.
>> Don't forget to schedule an upgrade to at least 8.2 since 8.1 is
>> considered broken and unsupported / unsupportable on windows. 8.3
>> changes some casting behaviour so you might want to wait until you can
>> test / fix code to go there, but 8.2 is usually a painless upgrade
>> from 8.1
>
> Thank you Scott for this note.
>
> I wanted to give some feedback on the situation:
>
> - The vacuum completed after about 6-7 hours (by 16:15 PM). We
> immediately made a backup before proceeding further. Then we vacuumed
> the postgres et template1 databases.
>
> - We were then successful at restarting postmaster and working with
> the database. Everything works as expected.
>
> Among all the help received (thank you all) I want to specially thank
> Kevin and Tom for their excellent help and time through this urgent
> problem we had to fix. I want to underline their detailed and precise
> posts that were of great value for acting and taking decisions to
> recover the DB. Thank you guys!
>
> Again, thank you to all.
>
> Best regards,
>

I knew I missed one -- yet not forgotten! **Thank you Greg!** You were
the first to post and it guided me for the immediate action I had to take.

Best regards,

--
Alexandre Leclerc