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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Arjun Ranade <ranade@nodalexchange.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Missing Chunk Error when doing a VACUUM FULL operation - DB Corruption?
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2017 10:57:43 -0400
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Arjun Ranade <ranade@nodalexchange.com> writes:
> After dropping the replication slot, VACUUM FULL runs fine now and no
> longer reports the "oldest xmin is far in the past"

Excellent.  Maybe we should think about providing better tools to notice
"stuck" replication slots.

In the meantime, you probably realize this already, but if global xmin
has been stuck for months then you're going to have terrible bloat
everywhere.  Database-wide VACUUM FULL seems called for.

			regards, tom lane


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