Re: fatal error on 8.1 server

Tony Caduto wrote:
> I don't know what the exact version is but I am getting this:
>
> FATAL:  database is not accepting commands to avoid wraparound data loss
> in database "postgres"
>
> How can I recover from this and why woud this happen to the postgres
> database?  Has my server been hacked?  there should be no inserts or
> anything going on.

Stop the postmaster, start a standalone backend, and issue a
database-wide VACUUM on database postgres.

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