On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 05:00:35PM +0530, Venki wrote:
> >The really nasty thing about it is that because the records are now
> >considered really old, as soon as you do run VACUUM it'll start
> >removing the rows you want to save...
> So does this mean that when we do a vacuum for the first time there will
> still be data loss or Am I wrong in this?
VACUUM cannot recover data from transaction wraparound. But we havn't
even determined if this has happened as you have not yet posted the
output of this query:
SELECT datname, age(datfrozenxid) FROM pg_database;
Have a ncie day,
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