Re: [BUGS] BUG #4548: Documentation Contradiction for 8.3

2008-11-24 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Monday 24 November 2008 23:37:02 Barry Reddy wrote: > Can anyone clarify if this apparent contradiction is an oversight ?  Old > documentation with new archiving documentation patched on, with no > attention paid to the seeming contradiction on guidelines for filesystem > backups of a running PG

Re: [BUGS] BUG #4548: Documentation Contradiction for 8.3

2008-11-24 Thread Bill Moran
In response to "Barry Reddy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > The following bug has been logged online: > > Bug reference: 4548 > Logged by: Barry Reddy > Email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > PostgreSQL version: 8.3.3 > Operating system: Linux 2.6.24-19-server i686 RHEL5 > Description:

[BUGS] BUG #4548: Documentation Contradiction for 8.3

2008-11-24 Thread Barry Reddy
The following bug has been logged online: Bug reference: 4548 Logged by: Barry Reddy Email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PostgreSQL version: 8.3.3 Operating system: Linux 2.6.24-19-server i686 RHEL5 Description:Documentation Contradiction for 8.3 Details: I’ve been goi

Re: [BUGS] could not read block 77 of relation 1663/16385/388818775

2008-11-24 Thread John R Pierce
Alexandra Nitzschke wrote: BTW... how about a block checksum that is checked just before writing a block and just after reading it? I know this would degrade performance, but I think we can afford that. Would it be possible to incorporate such code without having to do too much patching? ora

[BUGS] Postmaster keeps file references to deleted files

2008-11-24 Thread Tzvi Rotshtein
Bug reference: 4543 Logged by: Tzvi R. Email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PostgreSQL version: 8.3.5 Operating system: Linux (kernel 2.6.18) Description:File references are still held to deleted files Details: Hi, We frequently create large work tables that span across m

Re: [BUGS] could not read block 77 of relation 1663/16385/388818775

2008-11-24 Thread Alexandra Nitzschke
Hi, first of all I would like to thank you for all your efforts. > We really need a test case. unfortunately this kind of bugs tend to be non-reproducable. I assume that there is a race condition which is only hit in rare cases, under heavy load and when mars and venus are exactly aligned... ;

Re: [BUGS] could not read block 77 of relation 1663/16385/388818775

2008-11-24 Thread Alexandra Nitzschke
Yes, of course. After we started up the copied database, the system runs withour error for two days. That means some recordsets has been inserted sucessfully already. Gregory Stark schrieb: Alexandra Nitzschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: This monday I updated postgres to 8.3.5 on the standb

Re: [BUGS] BUG #4447: install failed to start; libintl3.dll was not found

2008-11-24 Thread Marc Schablewski
We had the same problem last week when installing PG 8.3.5/8.3.4 on two machine running Win2k3 Server sr2 belonging to one of our customers. After some hours of trial and error we found out that this error only occurred when not installing to the system drive. If we chose the system drive for insta