Re: Missing locales prevent autovacuum

Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]> Mon, 16 Dec 2019 16:19:11 -0300

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.db.postgresql.bugs
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On 2019-Dec-16, [email protected] wrote:

> is it intended, that missing locales of single databases prevent autovacuum
> in the entire cluster?
> FATAL:  database locale is incompatible with operating system
> If so, shouldn't there be an ERROR instead or additionally?

Probably that database is in danger of XID wraparound, so autovacuum is
selecting it without regard for any other databases.  Keeping broken
databases in your cluster is definitely not a good idea.  I suggest you
DROP it to allow other things to work normally.

Yes, I think we should somehow fix this problem.  But nobody has
attacked it seriously enough yet.

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