Re: Limitations on 7.0.3?

Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 02:32:09PM -0500, ARTEAGA Jose wrote:
>> I've looked at the pg_index table and we are currently at 15Mill
>> entries, which should be OK. After 2-3 days runtime I just get a
>> disconnect error from backend while doing an insert. After I restore the
>> DB and insert the same entries it runs fine. Following is the error I
>> get:
>
> Note: Version 7.0 *will* eat your data eventually. It has no protection
> against XID wraparound, you'll just start noticing data disappearing.
>
> From the documentation:
> Prior to PostgreSQL 7.2, the only defense against XID wraparound was to
> re-initdb at least every 4 billion transactions.

This is a very kind way of saying you are completely nuts for running
7.0 anything. The minimum you should be running is 7.4 and preferably 8.2.4.

Joshua D. Drake


>
> Have a nice day,


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