Oh, I forgot that the backends are reading the raw disk files to find database names. Thanks.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Tom, why was a VACUUM FULL required? > > I doubt that it was; a VACUUM would have sufficed to fix the tuple > commit bits. What I forgot to recommend was a CHECKPOINT to make > sure the fixed pages got dumped to disk. (Until they're written > out to the kernel, a new backend would still see the old pages > when it's doing the GetRawDatabaseInfo cruft.) > > I think a VAC FULL would have flushed dirty pages, but a plain VACUUM > wouldn't, so VAC FULL is a second way of getting the result. > > regards, tom lane > -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
