Kurt Overberg <kurt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Okay, so I did some digging with pg_filedump, and found the following: > Block 406 ******************************************************** > Item 1 -- Length: 472 Offset: 7720 (0x1e28) Flags: USED > XMIN: 1489323584 CMIN: 1 XMAX: 0 CMAX|XVAC: 0 > Block Id: 406 linp Index: 1 Attributes: 6 Size: 32 > infomask: 0x0912 (HASVARWIDTH|HASOID|XMIN_COMMITTED|XMAX_INVALID) This is pretty much what you'd expect for a never-updated tuple... > mydb=# select * from _my_cluster.sl_log_1 where ctid = '(406,1)'; > log_origin | log_xid | log_tableid | log_actionseq | log_cmdtype | > log_cmddata > ------------+---------+-------------+---------------+------------- > +------------- > (0 rows) so I have to conclude that you've got a wraparound problem. What is the current XID counter? (pg_controldata will give you that, along with a lot of other junk.) It might also be interesting to take a look at "ls -l $PGDATA/pg_clog"; the mod times on the files in there would give us an idea how fast XIDs are being consumed. regards, tom lane