[ADMIN] Random disconnects

2006-03-23 Thread Koen Martens
Hi All, Just wondering whether someone might recognize the problem i am having. First the intro: postgresql-8.1.0 running on FreeBSD 6.0-RELENG, on a dual xeon 3.0GHZ machine with 2gb memory/2gb swap. The problem is we have been experiencing random disconnects from our main application and a

[ADMIN] 8.1 display in top

2006-03-23 Thread Chris Hoover
Quick question. I am looking at top on my RH AS 4.0 server that runs my PG 8.1 database. When I see a db process in top, it says postgres: user db ipaddr(number) condition (i.e. postgres: user1 db1 10.4.10.10(23456) SELECT). What does the number after the ip address represent (the (23456)]?

Re: [ADMIN] 8.1 display in top

2006-03-23 Thread Tom Lane
Chris Hoover [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What does the number after the ip address represent (the (23456)]? It's the TCP port number on the client end. Some people requested that so they could tell apart multiple connections from the same client machine (you can use lsof or equivalent on the

Re: [ADMIN] Random disconnects

2006-03-23 Thread Robin Iddon
In java, this big fat exception: org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: An I/O error occured while sending to the backend. Call stack: org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: An I/O error occured while sending to the backend. at

Re: [ADMIN] Re out of memory error with large insert

2006-03-23 Thread Sriram Dandapani
What are the recommended ulimit settings. A single postgres connection that does an insert(with no other database activity) of say 6 million rows into a 15 column table (all integer columns) cannot complete due to an out of memory error This happens on a 4Gb Linux box with shmmax set to 1gb and

[ADMIN] Archive Command Configuration

2006-03-23 Thread Pallav Kalva
Hi, I am in the process of implementing Failover to our production database. Inorder to able to restore to the last archive log, I have cron job from the production database that runs every 5-10min to check if there are any new archive logs and copy new archive logs to the remote stand

Re: [ADMIN] Archive Command Configuration

2006-03-23 Thread Steve Crawford
...I have a cron job from the production database that runs every 5-10min to check if there are any new archive logs and copy new archive logs to the remote stand by failover machine. The problem with this scenario is that there might be a possibility that I might scp a partially filled

Re: [ADMIN] Archive Command Configuration

2006-03-23 Thread Pallav Kalva
Steve Crawford wrote: ...I have a cron job from the production database that runs every 5-10min to check if there are any new archive logs and copy new archive logs to the remote stand by failover machine. The problem with this scenario is that there might be a possibility that I might scp

Re: [ADMIN] Archive Command Configuration

2006-03-23 Thread Steve Crawford
Hi Steve, Thanks! for the quick reply, I thought about rsync too, but wasnt sure about completely how it handles partial files. I use rsync for all the backups, it works fine for all the application except for our mail application it copies the files but at the end of the job it gives me

[ADMIN] Bloated pg_shdepend_depender_index

2006-03-23 Thread Gregory Maxwell
So, I've run a number of PG databases for a number of years.. and I've now run into something I've never seen before in the most trivial of places. A couple of months back my girlfriend installed a music player called amarok on her system... I don't know much about it, but it stores its

Re: [ADMIN] Bloated pg_shdepend_depender_index

2006-03-23 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Gregory Maxwell wrote: I recently noticed that this database has grown to a huge size. ... Which I found to be somewhat odd because none of the tables have more than around 1000 rows. I hadn't been vacuuming because I didn't think that anything would ever be deleted so I performed a

Re: [ADMIN] Bloated pg_shdepend_depender_index

2006-03-23 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On 3/23/06, Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gregory Maxwell wrote: I recently noticed that this database has grown to a huge size. ... Which I found to be somewhat odd because none of the tables have more than around 1000 rows. I hadn't been vacuuming because I didn't think

Re: [ADMIN] Bloated pg_shdepend_depender_index

2006-03-23 Thread Tom Lane
Gregory Maxwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I vacuum fulled nothing else was connected.. I just restarted PG and vacuumed again.. no obvious change of disk size (still.. 6.4 gigs).. but this changed: amarokcollection=# select relname, pg_relation_size(oid) FROM pg_class ORDER BY 2 DESC

Re: [ADMIN] Bloated pg_shdepend_depender_index

2006-03-23 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On 3/23/06, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: amarokcollection=# select relname, pg_relation_size(oid) FROM pg_class ORDER BY 2 DESC LIMIT 20; relname | pg_relation_size -+-- pg_attribute_relid_attnam_index |

Re: [ADMIN] Bloated pg_shdepend_depender_index

2006-03-23 Thread Tom Lane
Gregory Maxwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So it's by design that these now bloated index won't shrink if let unvacuumed? I didn't expect to hit something like that. Well, the VACUUM FULL algorithm is incapable of shrinking indexes --- the only way is REINDEX, or something else that reconstructs