Re: Help me recovering data

From: Doug McNaught <doug(at)mcnaught(dot)org>
To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Kouber Saparev <postgresql(at)saparev(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Help me recovering data
Date: 2005-02-14 17:56:45
Message-ID: 873bvzja8y.fsf@asmodeus.mcnaught.org
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Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> writes:

> This might seem like a stupid question, but since this is a massive
> data loss potential in PostgreSQL, what's so hard about having the
> checkpointer or something check the transaction counter when it runs
> and either issue a db-wide vacuum if it's about to wrap, or simply
> disallow any new transactions?

I think autovac-in-backend is the preferred solution to this, and it's
definitely on the TODO list...

-Doug

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