Re: panic on 7.3 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

It is the version that shipped with fedora core 1.  The version  
string from psql is (PostgreSQL) 7.3.4-RH.  I assume that it must  
have been the first bug since I had plenty of disk space.


On Jan 20, 2006, at 5:35 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Rick Gigger wrote:
>> Postgres version 7.3.4
>>
>> ... a whole bunch of other files....
>> -rw-------  1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 18 22:42 027D
>> -rw-------  1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 19 07:38 027E
>> -rw-------  1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 19 08:25 027F
>> -rw-------  1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 19 09:07 0280
>> -rw-------  1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 19 09:59 0281
>> -rw-------  1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 19 11:07 0282
>> -rw-------  1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 19 12:22 0283
>> -rw-------  1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 19 13:29 0284
>> -rw-------  1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 19 14:26 0285
>> -rw-------  1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 19 15:58 0286
>> -rw-------  1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 19 19:55 0287
>> -rw-------  1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 19 23:47 0288
>> -rw-------  1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 20 02:35 0289
>> -rw-------  1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 20 04:21 028A
>> -rw-------  1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 20 06:16 028B
>> -rw-------  1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 20 07:20 028C
>> -rw-------  1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 20 08:22 028D
>> -rw-------  1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 20 09:24 028E
>> -rw-------  1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 20 10:24 028F
>> -rw-------  1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 20 11:04 0290
>> -rw-------  1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 20 11:50 0291
>> -rw-------  1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 20 13:27 0292
>> -rw-------  1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 20 14:24 0293
>> -rw-------  1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 20 14:53 0294
>> -rw-------  1 postgres postgres 262144 Jan 20 17:10 0295
>>
>> That is right now.  Right after it started up it went up to 0292.
>> There are a lot of files before the ones listed here right now
>> though.  Do you need to see their names?
>
> I assume you are missing one of these fixes in 7.3.X current which  
> were
> done _after_ 7.3.4 was released:
>
>      * Fix race condition in transaction log management
>        There was a narrow window in which an I/O operation could be
>        initiated for the wrong page, leading to an Assert
>        failure or data corruption.
>
>      * Repair incorrect order of operations in GetNewTransactionId()
>        This bug could result in failure under out-of-disk-space
>        conditions, including inability to restart even after
>        disk space is freed.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> -----
>
>
>>
>>
>> On Jan 20, 2006, at 3:58 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>
>>> Rick Gigger <rick@alpinenetworking.com> writes:
>>>> I got this message:
>>>> 2006-01-20 11:50:51 PANIC:  creation of file /var/lib/pgsql/data/
>>>> pg_clog/0292 failed: File exists
>>>
>>>> In 7.3.  It caused the server to restart.
>>>
>>>> Can anyone tell me what it means?
>>>
>>> 7.3.what?
>>>
>>> What file names exist in the pg_clog directory?
>>>
>>>             regards, tom lane
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