Re: fatal error on 8.1 server

["Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>]

On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 13:36 -0600, Tony Caduto wrote:
> 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.

postgres.exe or possibly postmaster.exe I don't know how the windows
side does it.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake


> 
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