Re: [GENERAL] ltree gist index errors and fill factor questions

2014-12-31 Thread Mike Broers
The database is not crashing thankfully. We are waiting for the errors to come back to turn up logging in the hopes of creating the reproducible set.

Re: [GENERAL] ltree gist index errors and fill factor questions

2014-12-31 Thread Mike Broers
I will do my best to provide a reproducible test case. Is there any more information I can supply in the meantime that would help?

[GENERAL] ltree gist index errors and fill factor questions

2014-12-31 Thread Mike Broers
Hello, We have an ltree column (tree_path) that has a gist index (index_nodes_on_tree_path). This is in a 9.3.5 database. Recently errors started occurring in the postgres log on some updates to this table: fixing incomplete split in index "index_nodes_on_tree_path", block 2358 STATEMENT: UPD

Re: [GENERAL] question about checksum in 9.3

2014-01-14 Thread Mike Broers
see if that reveals any noticeable performance difference. Thanks again Mike On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 7:11 PM, Michael Paquier wrote: > On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 1:50 AM, Mike Broers wrote: > > Hello, I am in the process of planning a 9.3 migration of postgres and I > am > >

[GENERAL] question about checksum in 9.3

2014-01-13 Thread Mike Broers
Hello, I am in the process of planning a 9.3 migration of postgres and I am curious about the checksum features available. In my test 9.3 instance it seemed like this feature provides a log entry of the exact database/oid of the corrupt object when it is accessed, but not much else. I can't find

Re: [GENERAL] Re: corruption issue after server crash - ERROR: unexpected chunk number 0

2013-11-26 Thread Mike Broers
replication at the time of the crash have prevented this from cascading or was it already too late at that point? Thanks again for the input, its been very helpful! Mike On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Mike Broers wrote: > Thanks Shaun, > > Im planning to schedule a time to do the vacu

Re: [GENERAL] Re: corruption issue after server crash - ERROR: unexpected chunk number 0

2013-11-25 Thread Mike Broers
Thanks Shaun, Im planning to schedule a time to do the vacuum freeze suggested previously. So far the extent of the problem seems limited to the one session table and the one session row that was being used by a heavy bot scan at the time of the crash. Currently Im testing a recovery of a produc

Re: [GENERAL] corruption issue after server crash - ERROR: unexpected chunk number 0

2013-11-22 Thread Mike Broers
needs to be run in production. On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Kevin Grittner wrote: > Mike Broers wrote: > > > Is there anything I should look out for with vacuum freeze? > > Just check the logs and the vacuum output for errors and warnings. > > -- >

Re: [GENERAL] corruption issue after server crash - ERROR: unexpected chunk number 0

2013-11-21 Thread Mike Broers
for with vacuum freeze? Much appreciated, Mike On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Kevin Grittner wrote: > Mike Broers wrote: > > > Thanks for the response. fsync and full_page_writes are both on. > > > [ corruption appeared following power loss on the machine hosing > >

Re: [GENERAL] corruption issue after server crash - ERROR: unexpected chunk number 0

2013-11-21 Thread Mike Broers
I am planning on running the reindex in actual production tonight during our maintenance window, but was hoping if that worked we would be out of the woods. On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Kevin Grittner wrote: > Mike Broers wrote: > > > Hello we are running postgres 9.2.5 on RHEL

[GENERAL] Re: corruption issue after server crash - ERROR: unexpected chunk number 0

2013-11-21 Thread Mike Broers
see if there is a way to force vacuum to continue on error, worst case I might have to script a table by table vacuum script I guess.. If anyone has a better suggestion for determining the extent of the damage Id appreciate it. On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Mike Broers wrote: > Hello we

[GENERAL] corruption issue after server crash - ERROR: unexpected chunk number 0

2013-11-21 Thread Mike Broers
Hello we are running postgres 9.2.5 on RHEL6, our production server crashed hard and when it came back up our logs were flooded with: STATEMENT: SELECT "session_session"."session_key", "session_session"."session_data", "session_session"."expire_date", "session_session"."nonce" FROM "session_sessi

[GENERAL] 8.3.8 question about backup/recovery behavior

2010-09-15 Thread Mike Broers
We take nightly backups using the start backup, copying the data directory and archived logs, then stop backup method. Today I tested the recoverability of the backup by mounting this backup directory on a different server, copying the 3 hours of transactions logs from after last nights backup up