Re: [BUGS] Missing tables in postgresql 7.2.4

2005-05-12 Thread Tom Lane
"Michael Beckstette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > two last questions about the transaction ID wraparound problem of my DBs I had > yesterday (see former postings). After applying the 'recovery procedure' Tom > suggested now my XIDs are looking almost fine again, except for the template0 > DB. You

Re: [BUGS] Missing tables in postgresql 7.2.4

2005-05-12 Thread Michael Beckstette
Hello, two last questions about the transaction ID wraparound problem of my DBs I had yesterday (see former postings). After applying the 'recovery procedure' Tom suggested now my XIDs are looking almost fine again, except for the template0 DB. dev_db=# SELECT datname, age(datfrozenxid) FROM pg_d

Re: [BUGS] Missing tables in postgresql 7.2.4

2005-05-11 Thread Tom Lane
"Michael Beckstette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On May 11, 2:39pm, Tom Lane wrote: >> If it does, go ahead and do a database-wide plain VACUUM, and you >> should be OK. > Done. As far as I can tell, everything is OK again. Sweet ;-) In the words of my former business partner, a private pilot

Re: [BUGS] Missing tables in postgresql 7.2.4

2005-05-11 Thread John R Pierce
P.S.:A TODO for me: CRON Script for weekly VACUUM ;) on heavy use databases, mine generally does a light vacuum every 4 hours, and a once a day full on everything. also, a weekly full reindex on a really really heavy use systems like this one message board server I ad-mangle something like...

Re: [BUGS] Missing tables in postgresql 7.2.4

2005-05-11 Thread Michael Beckstette
Hi, On May 11, 2:39pm, Tom Lane wrote: > What I would recommend as a first step is to stop the postmaster and > then take a tarball backup of the entire $PGDATA tree. This will at > least provide a chance to go back if subsequent tries mess things up > completely. Done. This was probably the

Re: [BUGS] Missing tables in postgresql 7.2.4

2005-05-11 Thread Tom Lane
"Michael Beckstette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The 6 completely lost tables are not so dramatical, because they contain only > static data, that I can restore from the development system. But what happens > with the 8 tables that are still accessable, but not listed in pg_tables, > after > a V

Re: [BUGS] Missing tables in postgresql 7.2.4

2005-05-11 Thread Michael Beckstette
everal monthes ago. > Further on we use transactions at several places and we have at least 20 > transactions per minute. > > Does now a normal VACUUM FULL of the whole DB(s) fix our problem? > > Michael > > > On May 11, 11:51am, Tom Lane wrote: > > Subject: Re:

Re: [BUGS] Missing tables in postgresql 7.2.4

2005-05-11 Thread Michael Beckstette
he whole DB(s) fix our problem? Michael On May 11, 11:51am, Tom Lane wrote: > Subject: Re: [BUGS] Missing tables in postgresql 7.2.4 > "Michael Beckstette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > we recently discovered on our production database an a little bit bizarre > > pro

Re: [BUGS] Missing tables in postgresql 7.2.4

2005-05-11 Thread Tom Lane
"Michael Beckstette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > we recently discovered on our production database an a little bit bizarre > problem (after two years stable operations). Some tables are simply missing, > or > sometimes the affected table(s) is/are there but not listed in pg_tables. This sounds