Re: [SQL] pg_multixact issues

Dev Kumkar wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Dev Kumkar <devdas.kumkar@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Received the database with huge pg_multixact directory of size 21G and
> > there are ~82,000 files in "pg_multixact/members" and 202 files in
> > "pg_multixact/offsets" directory.
> >
> > Did run "vacuum full" on this database and it was successful. However now
> > am not sure about pg_multixact directory. truncating this directory except
> > 0000 file results into database start up issues, of course this is not
> > correct way of truncating.
> >          FATAL:  could not access status of transaction 13224692
> >
> > Stumped ! Please provide some comments on how to truncate pg_multixact
> > files and if there is any impact because of these files on database
> > performance.
> >
>
> Facing this issue on couple more machines where pg_multixact is huge and
> not being cleaned up. Any suggestions / troubleshooting tips?

Did you try decreasing the autovacuum_multixact_freeze_min_age and
autovacuum_multixact_freeze_table_age parameters?

What exact server version are you running?

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