Subject Re: [firebird-support] Re: How can a pointer page vanish?
Author Helen Borrie
At 12:25 PM 9/10/2007, you wrote:
>I understand it was meant be to be fixed in fb2 but
>
>this is our header page as you can see the ODS version is 11 already :
>
>So I am questioning whether it was really fixed in fb2.

Baffles me - best bet would be to wait till Vlad comes online later
with a better theory.


>Service started at 9/10/2007 11:20:13 AM
>
>Database "E:\Data\THEDATA.GDB"
>Database header page information:
> Flags 0
> Checksum 12345
> Generation 25174282
> Page size 16384
> ODS version 11.0
> Oldest transaction 24151144
> Oldest active 25173607
> Oldest snapshot 25173607
> Next transaction 25174271

You do have garbage sitting in there, for any updates, deletes or
rollbacks there might have been during the lives of the last million
or so transactions. I don't know how normal that might be for
you...and I don't *know* of any correlation between excessive
uncollected garbage and blowing the page pointer structure, given the
new limits...

./heLen