Re: Database 'xxxx', OID yyyyy, has disappeared from pg_database

Tom,

The log is only 98K.
-rw-rw-r--    1 postgres postgres    98304 Apr 24 15:00 pg_log

So it's not a wraparound problem.

Recent backups unfortunately are not available for all the databases.
Any suggestions?

Thanks

Tom Lane wrote:

>Michael Glenn <mike@mglenn.com> writes:
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>>> I receive the following error when trying to connect to ALL postgres
>>> databases on my system.
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>>> Database 'xxxx', OID yyyyy, has disappeared from pg_database
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>Hmm.  The only thing I can think of that might cause that for all DBs
>at once is transaction ID wraparound.  How large is your pg_log file
>($PGDATA/pg_log, in 7.0)?  If it's 1GB then that's what happened to you.
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>>> The various archives have other users that had this problem and the
>>> solution is to vacuum the pg_database, however;
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>>> bash$ vacuumdb pg_database
>>> psql: FATAL 1:  Database "pg_database" does not exist in the system catalog.
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>There are problems that can cause this error message for individual
>databases, and the solution is to connect to another database and vacuum
>the pg_database table (not the pg_database database; there isn't one).
>But that won't help if you can't get into anything to begin with.
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>>> PostgreSQL 7.0.0 - yeah, I know I should have upgraded. SOL?
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>Could be :-(.  If your pg_log is not 1GB in size then you didn't have a
>wraparound and maybe we can still help you.  Otherwise, I hope you made
>a backup recently.
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>            regards, tom lane
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