Re: [GENERAL] URGENT pg_xlog full impossible to restart ...

2004-07-17 Thread Bruce Momjian
Scott Marlowe wrote: > Did you have a long running transaction? That's usually the cause of > this kind of thing. Long transactions to not cause the WAL files to not be recycled. It must be something else. --- > > On Sat,

Re: [GENERAL] URGENT pg_xlog full impossible to restart ...

2004-07-17 Thread Scott Marlowe
Did you have a long running transaction? That's usually the cause of this kind of thing. On Sat, 2004-07-17 at 17:37, Hervà Piedvache wrote: > OK it's running again many thanks ! :o) > > But Tom ... could you clearly explain me what is the parameter to set in the > postgresql.conf to never have

Re: [GENERAL] URGENT pg_xlog full impossible to restart ...

2004-07-17 Thread Hervé Piedvache
OK it's running again many thanks ! :o) But Tom ... could you clearly explain me what is the parameter to set in the postgresql.conf to never have my pg_xlog partition's going full ?? I have 1.8 Gb dedicated to pg_xlog and I have set those options : checkpoint_segments = 3 # in logfile segments

Re: [GENERAL] URGENT pg_xlog full impossible to restart ...

2004-07-17 Thread Hervé Piedvache
Tom, Le samedi 17 Juillet 2004 23:06, Tom Lane a écrit : > =?iso-8859-15?q?Herv=E9_Piedvache?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > How to solve this ??? My pg_xlog partition is full ... :o( > > ... so free up some space ... But my pg_xlog partition is dedicated to the WAL files ... so I can't delete

Re: [GENERAL] URGENT pg_xlog full impossible to restart ...

2004-07-17 Thread Tom Lane
=?iso-8859-1?q?Herv=E9_Piedvache?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom, > Le samedi 17 Juillet 2004 23:06, Tom Lane a écrit : >> =?iso-8859-15?q?Herv=E9_Piedvache?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> How to solve this ??? My pg_xlog partition is full ... :o( >> >> ... so free up some space ... > But m

Re: [GENERAL] URGENT pg_xlog full impossible to restart ...

2004-07-17 Thread Tom Lane
=?iso-8859-15?q?Herv=E9_Piedvache?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How to solve this ??? My pg_xlog partition is full ... :o( ... so free up some space ... regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the

[GENERAL] URGENT pg_xlog full impossible to restart ...

2004-07-17 Thread Hervé Piedvache
Hi, I have my database stoping by itself during a vacuum full analyse; Impossible to restart it ... I have this message : Jul 17 22:03:09 stats-ugc postgres[7239]: [2-1] LOG: database system was shut down at 2004-07-17 20:53:06 CEST Jul 17 22:03:09 stats-ugc postgres[7239]: [3-1] LOG: checkpoi