[ADMIN] two questions regarding warm-standby on 8.4

2012-01-23 Thread Gary Webster
Hello. I am configuring warm-standby as documented here: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/warm-standby.html I am using "pg_standby", & may have it working corrrectly, but am not sure. 1) The standby database never 'starts', right? (/etc/init.d/postgresql-8.4 start" times out; I ca

Re: [ADMIN] two questions regarding warm-standby on 8.4

2012-01-23 Thread Gary Webster
Hello. Thanks for the informative replies. So, is Hot Standby the recommended way to do HA? My application does not need to be able to do queries on the standby. On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Simon Riggs wrote: > On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Gary Webster wrote: > > > I am

[ADMIN] clustering with shared storage

2012-03-20 Thread Gary Webster
Hello. Sorry if this is redundant, but I can't find any 'cookbook' for getting this setup. The best I've found is here: http://wiki.postgresql.org/images/5/58/06.5_-_Devrim_Gunduz_-_PostgreSQLClusteringWithRedHatClusterSuite--LT.pdf but, it doesn't go into setup details. I have a few questions/i

[ADMIN] db size growing out of control when using clustered Jackrabbit

2012-07-23 Thread Gary Webster
Hello. I'm hoping someone has seen this before. We are trying to use Postgres Plus v9.1.3 as the Persistence Manager in Jackrabbit (Apache JCR) clustering ( http://wiki.apache.org/jackrabbit/Clustering). Whenever the JCR is under load, the ws_bundle TOAST table in the repository schema, grows out

Re: [ADMIN] db size growing out of control when using clustered Jackrabbit

2012-07-24 Thread Gary Webster
BTW, how bad is that? Corruption? On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Craig Ringer wrote: > On 07/24/2012 05:13 AM, Gary Webster wrote: > > Hello. I'm hoping someone has seen this before. > > We are trying to use Postgres Plus v9.1.3 as the Persistence Manager in >

Re: [ADMIN] db size growing out of control when using clustered Jackrabbit

2012-07-24 Thread Gary Webster
ch (100s of GB). It is even bigger than the data store! I agree that this may not be an 'error' in Postgres, but somehow it is not playing well with Jackrabbit clustering. On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > On 07/23/2012 02:13 PM, Gary Webster wrote

Re: [ADMIN] db size growing out of control when using clustered Jackrabbit

2012-07-25 Thread Gary Webster
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > On 07/24/2012 08:58 AM, Gary Webster wrote: > >> Hello. >> Thanks for the response. >> >> There are several 'idle in transaction' on this server/app, but to a >> different db/schema. >

Re: [ADMIN] db size growing out of control when using clustered Jackrabbit

2012-07-26 Thread Gary Webster
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > On 07/25/2012 11:37 AM, Gary Webster wrote: > > This is a cluster issue, not a database issue. So if you have an >> idnle in transaction, then it is affecting your JCR schema as well. >> >> OK,

[ADMIN] [pgsql] How bad is this full vacuum error?

2012-08-01 Thread Gary Webster
Hello. How bad is this? 2012-08-01 06:30:03 PDT 15961 [local] cp_repository_na2 ERROR: missing chunk number 0 for toast value 1086399 in pg_toast_987417 2012-08-01 06:30:03 PDT 15961 [local] cp_repository_na2 STATEMENT: VACUUM (FULL); Does this mean I have db corruption, or just that the vac

[ADMIN] simple question about two 'servers' on same OS

2012-08-01 Thread Gary Webster
Hello. When running two 'separate' instances of Postgres on the same machine (diff ports), do I also have two separate installs of the binaries (prefix), or only two separate datadir ? If the former, should I make another "postgresb" superuser, or use the same one? If I have two separate prefix

[ADMIN] [pgsql-admin] JCR (Apache Jackrabbit) locking when using Postgres, not with MySQL

2012-08-29 Thread Gary Webster
Hello. The subject says most of what I know at this point. We are still not getting along with Apache Jackrabbit. After a few hours of using Postgres as the Persistence Manager, the JCR gets stuck, apparently on a simple DB update statement. This problem does not occur at all if we substitute MyS

Re: [ADMIN] [pgsql-admin] JCR (Apache Jackrabbit) locking when using Postgres, not with MySQL

2012-09-03 Thread Gary Webster
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Craig Ringer wrote: > On 08/30/2012 03:37 AM, Gary Webster wrote: > >> Hello. >> The subject says most of what I know at this point. >> >> We are still not getting along with Apache Jackrabbit. >> After a few hours of using

Re: [ADMIN] [pgsql-admin] JCR (Apache Jackrabbit) locking when using Postgres, not with MySQL

2012-09-03 Thread Gary Webster
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 3:33 AM, Albe Laurenz wrote: > Gary Webster wrote: > > The subject says most of what I know at this point. > > > > We are still not getting along with Apache Jackrabbit. > > After a few hours of using Postgres as the Persistence Manager, the >