Re: [BUGS] unable to fail over to warm standby server

2010-01-29 Thread Fujii Masao
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:49 PM, Mason Hale ma...@onespot.com wrote: While I did not remove the trigger file, I did rename recovery.conf to recovery.conf.old. That file contained the recovery_command configuration that identified the trigger file. So that rename should have eliminated the

[BUGS] BUG #5301: difference of behaviour between 8.3 and 8.4 on IS NULL with sub rows of nulls

2010-01-29 Thread Jehan-Guillaume (ioguix) de Rorthais
The following bug has been logged online: Bug reference: 5301 Logged by: Jehan-Guillaume (ioguix) de Rorthais Email address: iog...@free.fr PostgreSQL version: 8.3 Operating system: Linux Description:difference of behaviour between 8.3 and 8.4 on IS NULL with sub

Re: [BUGS] emedded SQL in C to get the record type from plpgsql

2010-01-29 Thread Craig Ringer
Sun Duozhong(孙多忠) wrote: So how can emedded SQL in C to get the record type which returning from plpgsql function? You seem to have missed the fact that this isn't a web forum for help questions. It's a bug report form. You are not reporting a bug. You are not likely to get help by repeatedly

[BUGS] BUG #5299: unable to start postgres service

2010-01-29 Thread Savita
The following bug has been logged online: Bug reference: 5299 Logged by: Savita Email address: savita.ha...@gmail.com PostgreSQL version: 8.3.5 Operating system: HP 11.31 Description:unable to start postgres service Details: Hi I have installed postgres. When I

[BUGS] BUG #5300: Bug on Mac OS X 10.6 and Postgres 8.4

2010-01-29 Thread aurelien
The following bug has been logged online: Bug reference: 5300 Logged by: aurelien Email address: alti...@carrafix.com PostgreSQL version: 8.4.1 Operating system: Mac OS X 10.6 Description:Bug on Mac OS X 10.6 and Postgres 8.4 Details: Look what's here :

Re: [BUGS] unable to fail over to warm standby server

2010-01-29 Thread Mason Hale
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Mason Hale ma...@onespot.com wrote: Of course the best solution is to avoid this issue entirely. Something as easy to miss as file permissions should not cause data corruption, especially in the process meant to fail over from a crashing primary database.

Re: [BUGS] unable to fail over to warm standby server

2010-01-29 Thread Mason Hale
Hello Fujii -- Thanks for the clarification. It's clear my understanding of the recovery process is lacking. My naive assumption was that Postgres would recover using whatever files were available and if it had run out of files it would stop there and come up. And that if recovery.conf were

Re: [BUGS] unable to fail over to warm standby server

2010-01-29 Thread Robert Haas
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Fujii Masao masao.fu...@gmail.com wrote: You seem to focus on the above trouble. I think that this happened because recovery.conf was deleted and restore_command was not given. In fact, the WAL file (e.g., pg_xlog/00023C8200A3) required for recovery

Re: [BUGS] unable to fail over to warm standby server

2010-01-29 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
Robert Haas wrote: On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Fujii Masao masao.fu...@gmail.com wrote: You seem to focus on the above trouble. I think that this happened because recovery.conf was deleted and restore_command was not given. In fact, the WAL file (e.g., pg_xlog/00023C8200A3)

Re: [BUGS] BUG #5299: unable to start postgres service

2010-01-29 Thread Kevin Grittner
Savita savita.ha...@gmail.com wrote: I have installed postgres. When I check the status of postgres service I get it is not running. But when I start pg_ctl start it says server starting. But server is actually not started. How do we get debug information for pg_ctl start? This doesn't

Re: [BUGS] BUG #5301: difference of behaviour between 8.3 and 8.4 on IS NULL with sub rows of nulls

2010-01-29 Thread Kevin Grittner
Jehan-Guillaume (ioguix) de Rorthais iog...@free.fr wrote: and here is another test case where 8.3 is inconsistent with *himself* this time: Sounds like an argument that the behavior *should* have changed in 8.4. We don't like to introduce behavioral changes which might break something in a

Re: [BUGS] [GENERAL] Amazon EC2 CPU Utilization

2010-01-29 Thread John R Pierce
top is not the be-all and end-all of analysis tools. I'm sure you know that, but it bears repeating. More importantly, in a virtualised environment the tools on the inside of the guest don't have a full picture of what's really going on. Indeed, you have hit the nail on the head. does

Re: [BUGS] [GENERAL] Amazon EC2 CPU Utilization

2010-01-29 Thread John R Pierce
John R Pierce wrote: top is not the be-all and end-all of analysis tools. I'm sure you know that, but it bears repeating. More importantly, in a virtualised environment the tools on the inside of the guest don't have a full picture of what's really going on. Indeed, you have hit the

[BUGS] BUG #5302: WIN1252 encoding causes server memory leak

2010-01-29 Thread Florian Nigsch
The following bug has been logged online: Bug reference: 5302 Logged by: Florian Nigsch Email address: cont...@flo.nigsch.com PostgreSQL version: 8.4.2 Operating system: x86_64 GNU/Linux 2.6.18-92.el5 Description:WIN1252 encoding causes server memory leak Details:

Re: [BUGS] unable to fail over to warm standby server

2010-01-29 Thread Mason Hale
If the sysadmin had left the recovery.conf and removed the trigger file, pg_standby in restore_command would have restored all WAL files required for recovery, and recovery would advance well. That may be true, but it's certainly seems unfortunate that we don't handle this case a bit

Re: [BUGS] BUG #5302: WIN1252 encoding causes server memory leak

2010-01-29 Thread Tom Lane
Florian Nigsch cont...@flo.nigsch.com writes: Description:WIN1252 encoding causes server memory leak Hmm, what server-side encoding and locale are you using? regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to

Re: [BUGS] unable to fail over to warm standby server

2010-01-29 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
Actually, I think there's a tiny harmless bug in the server too. When it prints the error message: 2010-01-18 21:08:31 UTC ()FATAL: could not restore file 00023C8200D8 from archive: return code 65280 That return code is not the return code that came from the restore_command. Ie if

Re: [BUGS] unable to fail over to warm standby server

2010-01-29 Thread Robert Haas
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Heikki Linnakangas heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com wrote: Actually, I think there's a tiny harmless bug in the server too. When it prints the error message: 2010-01-18 21:08:31 UTC ()FATAL:  could not restore file 00023C8200D8 from archive:

Re: [BUGS] unable to fail over to warm standby server

2010-01-29 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Heikki Linnakangas That only affects the error message and is harmless otherwise, but I thought I'd mention it. I'll fix it, unless someone wants to argue that its more useful to print the raw return value of system(),

[BUGS] BUG #5303: Upgrade failure due to sever.key permissions

2010-01-29 Thread D Black
The following bug has been logged online: Bug reference: 5303 Logged by: D Black Email address: softc...@inbox.com PostgreSQL version: 8.3 Operating system: Ubuntu 8.04 Description:Upgrade failure due to sever.key permissions Details: PostgreSQL 8.3 upgrade failed

Re: [BUGS] BUG #5302: WIN1252 encoding causes server memory leak

2010-01-29 Thread Florian Nigsch
Output of 'psql -l': The 8.4.0 server: List of databases Name| Owner | Encoding | Collation |Ctype| Access privileges ---+--+--+-+-+--- | | UTF8

Re: [BUGS] BUG #5303: Upgrade failure due to sever.key permissions

2010-01-29 Thread Craig Ringer
D Black wrote: The following bug has been logged online: Bug reference: 5303 Logged by: D Black Email address: softc...@inbox.com PostgreSQL version: 8.3 Operating system: Ubuntu 8.04 Description:Upgrade failure due to sever.key permissions Details: