From: Jerry Sievers <gsievers19@comcast.net>
To: Christian Rosnes <christian.rosnes@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Oldest xmin is far in the past
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 09:55:05 -0400
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Christian Rosnes <christian.rosnes@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi,
>
> Coming back from vacation, I find a PostgreSQL database cluster (Pg version: 9.0.4)
> with 5 databases, which for the past 5 days have logged these messages:
>
> ? WARNING:? oldest xmin is far in the past
> ? HINT:? Close open transactions soon to avoid wraparound problems.
>
> The cluster has been running continously for over 9 months with autovacuum enabled.
<snip>>
> I cannot find any 'idle in transaction' connected, and I can see one 'idle' connection
> (but not 'idle in transaction') which is almost 24 hours old, the rest is from early this morning.
>
See if there is a prepared transaction still open. Query pg_prepared_xacts.
HTH
--
Jerry Sievers
Postgres DBA/Development Consulting
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