Re: fatal error on 8.1 server

[Tony Caduto <tony_caduto(at)amsoftwaredesign(dot)com>]

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Tony Caduto wrote:
>   
> > I don't know what the exact version is but I am getting this:
> >
> > FATAL:  database is not accepting commands to avoid wraparound data loss 
> > in database "postgres"
> >
> > How can I recover from this and why woud this happen to the postgres 
> > database?  Has my server been hacked?  there should be no inserts or 
> > anything going on.
> >     
>
> Stop the postmaster, start a standalone backend, and issue a
> database-wide VACUUM on database postgres.
>
>   
Yep, I saw that in the docs, now I am just having problems finding a 
standalone backend, not sure what that means.

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