Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4BCE37C0AA for ; Wed, 8 Oct 2008 20:13:15 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 59767-01 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 2008 20:13:12 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com (rv-out-0506.google.com [209.85.198.232]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFC2137BAC4 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 2008 20:13:12 -0300 (ADT) Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id b25so4161241rvf.43 for ; Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:13:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=2VaqLmPmVrfhxFIrSXr83v8LVtqJAU7mKlOI1OFTtNc=; b=hke0fuNu71SokgSahzkiV970TQgzWCZo2LRyPdRzuTgnT+TuqZ47C7m3iSS5uzFUvT e2CyRu+zoHfhZdE4PkM0xyVTsHJNiUarHJhfTILUryH0SCFZ+5LtsOeM/cxVvt3lQhC8 DtY1DEZAjAcXMj5cA2Sd4OyWFAf+VLCtUy1AM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=wVzwq8hQkA1LlEUD2mHEPGACryNfT+0sBGOe7S6Ec4R+owsm7LIalklyLjtJ+0KsD+ 5mBmfQDhX5+Ra3+l3E6//ldiJR3XUodG6CzxAvIgZ1C3l/8OLJPlDwrBYOvR5D7/mEnY klD5gWgLvLkGR1qGzLhV9QfdKkmvXmqfJkUxk= Received: by 10.140.170.12 with SMTP id s12mr5606925rve.101.1223507590941; Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:13:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.140.248.12 with HTTP; Wed, 8 Oct 2008 16:13:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 17:13:10 -0600 From: "Scott Marlowe" To: "Marc Fromm" Subject: Re: log results Cc: "pgsql-admin@postgresql.org" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=none X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200810/66 X-Sequence-Number: 30522 On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Marc Fromm wrote: > I just started logging postgresql. In the log are these entries: > > 478 LOG: transaction ID wrap limit is 1110972072, limited by database > "cswe2" > > 479 LOG: transaction ID wrap limit is 1110972072, limited by database > "cswe2" Don't worry about the xaction wraparound. that's just a notice. > > 480 NOTICE: number of page slots needed (27072) exceeds max_fsm_pages > (20000) > > 481 HINT: Consider increasing the configuration parameter > "max_fsm_pages" to a value over 27072. > > Can someone explain what it is and what I need to do to fix it? You need to consider increasing the configuration parameter "max_fsm_pages" to a value over 27072. The configuration parameters are found in postgresql.conf, which can be in various places depending on your OS. Then restart postgresql.