Re: [GENERAL] WARNINGs after starting backup server created with PITR

2008-01-18 Thread Brian Wipf
get a base backup. Brian Wipf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to

Re: [GENERAL] Disconnects hanging server

2007-12-04 Thread Brian Wipf
On 3-Dec-07, at 3:51 PM, A.M. wrote: On Dec 3, 2007, at 4:16 PM, Brian Wipf wrote: We have a dual 3.0 GHz Intel Dual-core Xserve, running Mac OS X 10.5.1 Leopard Server and PostgreSQL 8.2.5. When we disconnect several clients at a time (30+) in production, the CPU goes through the roof

[GENERAL] Disconnects hanging server

2007-12-03 Thread Brian Wipf
ce may be when I'm killing pgbench. I'm not sure if this is a bug with PostgreSQL or OS X 10.5.1. Any suggestions on what I can do to narrow down the problem further would be greatly appreciated. Brian Wipf ClickSpace Interactive Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --

Re: [GENERAL] Base Backups from PITR Standby

2007-10-30 Thread Brian Wipf
d which can be shut down periodically for taking base backups. Brian Wipf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [GENERAL] Base Backups from PITR Standby

2007-10-30 Thread Brian Wipf
On 29-Oct-07, at 11:06 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Brian Wipf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: The process I use that leads to the warnings is simple: I use pg_controldata to determine the current checkpoint WAL location of the standby server. I ensure I have this WAL file and all newer WALs. I

[GENERAL] Base Backups from PITR Standby

2007-10-29 Thread Brian Wipf
ortant that this even works. If anyone could shed any insight though, I would appreciate the feedback. Brian Wipf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscri

[GENERAL] WAL archiving idle database

2007-10-26 Thread Brian Wipf
I have a test PG 8.2.5 installation that has been left idle with no connections to it whatsoever for the last 24 hours plus. WALs are being archived exactly 5 minutes apart, even though archive_timeout is set to 60. Is this the expected behavior for a database with no changes? Brian ---

Re: [GENERAL] Determining oldest WAL for Archiving PITR Standby - SOLVED

2007-10-18 Thread Brian Wipf
On 18-Oct-07, at 3:15 PM, Brian Wipf wrote: The offset is the last 6 hex digits of the checkpoint location value. The offset contains leading zeros to make it 6 digits if its actual value is less than 6 digits. Therefore, the digits between the slash and the last 6 digits are the log

Re: [GENERAL] Determining oldest WAL for Archiving PITR Standby - SOLVED

2007-10-18 Thread Brian Wipf
On 17-Oct-07, at 12:01 AM, Brian Wipf wrote: I'm working on a script that takes backups in intervals from our warm PITR stand by server (both servers running PG 8.2.5). The documentation advises "running pg_controldata on the standby server to inspect the control file and det

[GENERAL] Determining oldest WAL for Archiving PITR Standby

2007-10-16 Thread Brian Wipf
digits after the slash would be the log segment. What is the rule for determining the log segment from pg_controldata's output? Thanks for the help! Brian Wipf ClickSpace Interactive Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---(end of broadcast)--- T

Re: [GENERAL] PITR Recovery and out-of-sync indexes

2007-10-04 Thread Brian Wipf
difficult to maintain when things go wrong. Brian Wipf ClickSpace Interactive Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PR

Re: [GENERAL] PITR and Compressed WALS

2007-10-03 Thread Brian Wipf
doing the requested copy. I fixed the bug now. Thanks for your input Tom. Brian Wipf ClickSpace Interactive Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choo

Re: [GENERAL] PITR Recovery and out-of-sync indexes

2007-10-03 Thread Brian Wipf
On 3-Oct-07, at 12:46 PM, Richard Huxton wrote: Tom Lane wrote: Brian Wipf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PG tried to enforce the same LC_COLLATE and LC_CTYPE. On OS X, the value of en_US.utf8 didn't exist, so I created a soft link to en_US.UTF-8 in the /usr/share/locale/ direct

Re: [GENERAL] PITR Recovery and out-of-sync indexes

2007-10-03 Thread Brian Wipf
y-I worked better for us, but it is more difficult to maintain than PG's PITR and a warm standby is sufficient for us. It would be nice to be able to use the read-only warm stand-by PITR at some point as well, although with the different locale orderings, I suppose this wouldn't be po

[GENERAL] PITR Recovery and out-of-sync indexes

2007-10-02 Thread Brian Wipf
play will not update these indexes. The recommended workaround is to manually REINDEX each such index after completing a recovery operation" Is it possible there are issues with btree indexes being maintained properly as well? Any other ideas? Brian Wipf Clickspace Int

[GENERAL] PITR and Compressed WALS

2007-10-02 Thread Brian Wipf
ot sure if this should be listed as another caveat on the PITR recovery page but in the very least I wanted to post to the list so that others attempting to archive and recover compressed WALs may be aware of a potential issue. Brian Wipf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---

Re: [GENERAL] Performance issues of one vs. two split tables.

2007-05-16 Thread Brian Wipf
On 16-May-07, at 4:05 PM, PFC wrote: This makes queries hard to optimize. Consider the table (user_id, item_id) meaning user selected this item as favourite. If you want to know which users did select both items 1 and 2, you have to do a self-join, something like : SELECT... FROM favourite

Re: [GENERAL] dependency ?

2007-01-29 Thread Brian Wipf
ERENCES foo_table' | grep 'Table ' | cut - d '"' -f 2 should do the trick. Brian Wipf ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

[GENERAL] Duplicate key violation

2007-01-25 Thread Brian Wipf
if it recurs, I'll rebuild the primary key index. Perhaps the category_product_visible_pkey index was/is corrupted in some way. Brian Wipf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The exact error was: select process_pending_changes(); FAILED!!! Message: ERROR: duplicate key violates unique constraint "

Re: [GENERAL] Statement timeout not working on broken connections with active queries

2006-12-12 Thread Brian Wipf
On 12-Dec-06, at 4:30 PM, Tom Lane wrote: "Brendan O'Shea" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: We have discovered a situation where the statement_timeout is not = honored for broken connections. If a connection is in the process of = returning results to the client and the connection is severed (for

Re: [GENERAL] Unsuccessful SIGINT

2006-12-04 Thread Brian Wipf
On 4-Dec-06, at 1:43 AM, Albe Laurenz wrote: lsof on the client machine (192.168.0.52) shows no connections on port 49333, so it doesn't appear to be a simple matter of killing the client connection. If I have to, I can reboot the client machine, but this seems like overkill and I'm not cer

Re: [GENERAL] Unsuccessful SIGINT - More Info

2006-12-02 Thread Brian Wipf
On 2-Dec-06, at 6:27 AM, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 08:26:53PM -0700, Brian Wipf wrote: Now I know the cause at least. If anyone has an idea on how to kill a similar hung connection without rebooting the server, I would appreciate any suggestions. I'm unsure

Re: [GENERAL] Unsuccessful SIGINT - More Info

2006-12-01 Thread Brian Wipf
on without rebooting the server, I would appreciate any suggestions. Thanks, Brian Wipf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 1-Dec-06, at 6:30 PM, Brian Wipf wrote: Based on the backend_start time in pg_stat_activity, I was able to find the problem query in our logs. The query is a simple one, but

Re: [GENERAL] Unsuccessful SIGINT - More Info

2006-12-01 Thread Brian Wipf
error occurred, but the server still shows the hung non-sigint-able connection. On 1-Dec-06, at 5:54 PM, Brian Wipf wrote: Sorry, I forgot to mention this is on PostgreSQL 8.1.5. The server is SUSE Linux 10.1, the client is OS X Server 10.4.8. On 1-Dec-06, at 5:42 PM, Brian Wipf wrote: I

Re: [GENERAL] Unsuccessful SIGINT

2006-12-01 Thread Brian Wipf
Sorry, I forgot to mention this is on PostgreSQL 8.1.5. The server is SUSE Linux 10.1, the client is OS X Server 10.4.8. On 1-Dec-06, at 5:42 PM, Brian Wipf wrote: I have a connection that I am unable to kill with a sigint. ps auxww for the process in question: postgres 3578 0.3 3.6

[GENERAL] Unsuccessful SIGINT

2006-12-01 Thread Brian Wipf
ooting the client? Brian Wipf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to