We started getting the following error on some transactions on our database (when against particular rows run against the table).
PGError: ERROR: could not access status of transaction 283479860 DETAIL: Could not open file "pg_multixact/members/4D6D": No such file or directory. We don't know what happen or how to recover. Any advise? We are running PostgreSQL 9.3.5 on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5) 4.6.3, 64-bit pg_controldata . pg_control version number: 937 Catalog version number: 201306121 Database system identifier: 6049974226855122843 Database cluster state: in production pg_control last modified: Wed 01 Apr 2015 05:53:33 PM EDT Latest checkpoint location: 6D77/6D729948 Prior checkpoint location: 6D77/6BBC9038 Latest checkpoint's REDO location: 6D77/6BE0F0E0 Latest checkpoint's REDO WAL file: 0000000100006D770000006B Latest checkpoint's TimeLineID: 1 Latest checkpoint's PrevTimeLineID: 1 Latest checkpoint's full_page_writes: on Latest checkpoint's NextXID: 0/2713180814 Latest checkpoint's NextOID: 1709773115 Latest checkpoint's NextMultiXactId: 318596530 Latest checkpoint's NextMultiOffset: 2059555326 Latest checkpoint's oldestXID: 1746597315 Latest checkpoint's oldestXID's DB: 16415 Latest checkpoint's oldestActiveXID: 2713180814 Latest checkpoint's oldestMultiXid: 54760341 Latest checkpoint's oldestMulti's DB: 16415 Time of latest checkpoint: Wed 01 Apr 2015 05:50:01 PM EDT Fake LSN counter for unlogged rels: 0/1 Minimum recovery ending location: 0/0 Min recovery ending loc's timeline: 0 Backup start location: 0/0 Backup end location: 0/0 End-of-backup record required: no Current wal_level setting: hot_standby Current max_connections setting: 600 Current max_prepared_xacts setting: 0 Current max_locks_per_xact setting: 64 Maximum data alignment: 8 Database block size: 8192 Blocks per segment of large relation: 131072 WAL block size: 8192 Bytes per WAL segment: 16777216 Maximum length of identifiers: 64 Maximum columns in an index: 32 Maximum size of a TOAST chunk: 1996 Date/time type storage: 64-bit integers Float4 argument passing: by value Float8 argument passing: by value Data page checksum version: 0 -- Thank You, Pweaver (pwea...@panjiva.com)