"George Pavlov" <gpavlov@mynewplace.com> writes:
>> "George Pavlov" <gpavlov@mynewplace.com> writes:
>>>>> 2006-11-08 12:38:34 PST [3739]: [3-1] LOG: could not truncate directory
>>>>> "pg_multixact/members": apparent wraparound
>>>> During crash recovery?
>>> no crashes, just normal DB operation...
>>
>> Hmm ... what is in pg_multixact/members/ again?
> Now there is only a file named 0010 the date on which changes about
> every 4-5 minutes or so.
AFAICS this must indicate that TruncateMultiXact() computed a bogus
oldestOffset, but it's hard to see how that would happen in the middle
of an unexceptional run. Alvaro, any ideas? Could there be a race
condition involved in filling in the "members" entries?
regards, tom lane