Monday, May 12, 2008

Re: [ADMIN] Orphan TOAST object

Problem has now been solved.  Thanks a lot for all your help.

On 5/12/08, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
"James Farrugia" <james.farrugia@gmail.com> writes:
> One last thing...can we run into data-loss problems with successfully
> vacuumed tables even if there is one unvacuumed database object; what would
> have happened if I ignored to vacuum that rogue pg_toast (which was the only
> unvacuumed object within the entire database)?

The database would have shut down when you got to the
2-billion-transactions mark.  So you'd have had to solve the problem
sooner or later anyway.

                       regards, tom lane

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