Re: [GENERAL] Apparent Wraparound?

2007-06-19 Thread g . hintermayer
On Jun 18, 10:44 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alvaro Herrera) wrote: Please check MultiXact id consumption. Do you mean that your server has crashed? How do I check MilitXact id consumption ? Is it Latest checkpoint's NextXID: in the output of pg_controldata ? transaction id consumption is ~

Re: [GENERAL] Apparent Wraparound?

2007-06-19 Thread Alvaro Herrera
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 18, 10:44 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alvaro Herrera) wrote: Please check MultiXact id consumption. Do you mean that your server has crashed? How do I check MilitXact id consumption ? Is it Latest checkpoint's NextXID: in the output of pg_controldata ?

Re: [GENERAL] Apparent Wraparound?

2007-06-19 Thread Gerhard Hintermayer
And when was the message logged? after the server was running with version 8.1.8 for about 2 month (actually it was Jun 13 on one server and Apr 5 on the other) and no similar log entries since then. Gerhard ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2:

Re: [GENERAL] Apparent Wraparound?

2007-06-18 Thread g . hintermayer
On Jun 13, 2:35 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 8, 3:23 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alvaro Herrera) wrote: Gunther Mayer wrote: Hi there, I just found the following message in my logs: Jun 8 10:38:38 caligula postgres[56868]: [1-1] : LOG: could not truncate directory

Re: [GENERAL] Apparent Wraparound?

2007-06-18 Thread Alvaro Herrera
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 18, 11:08 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 13, 2:35 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone tell me if I should be concerned about this log entry ? My database is quite large (~ 2G in PGDATA) BTW, I do not use autovacuum, and run vacuumdb on a weekly

Re: [GENERAL] Apparent Wraparound?

2007-06-18 Thread g . hintermayer
Aha, google thinks it's wise to make the last postings (probably if more than n ?) show only the poster name and make the name clickable. Not very userfriendly :-( but now i know it ;-) Sorry if that wasn't clear. I'm getting the same log entry as the original poster, i.e.: LOG: could not

Re: [GENERAL] Apparent Wraparound?

2007-06-18 Thread Alvaro Herrera
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aha, google thinks it's wise to make the last postings (probably if more than n ?) show only the poster name and make the name clickable. Not very userfriendly :-( but now i know it ;-) I don't very much understand what you mean. I do see that you said I noticed the

Re: [GENERAL] Apparent Wraparound?

2007-06-13 Thread g . hintermayer
On Jun 8, 3:23 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alvaro Herrera) wrote: Gunther Mayer wrote: Hi there, I just found the following message in my logs: Jun 8 10:38:38 caligula postgres[56868]: [1-1] : LOG: could not truncate directory pg_subtrans: apparent wraparound Should I be worried or can

[GENERAL] Apparent Wraparound?

2007-06-08 Thread Gunther Mayer
Hi there, I just found the following message in my logs: Jun 8 10:38:38 caligula postgres[56868]: [1-1] : LOG: could not truncate directory pg_subtrans: apparent wraparound Should I be worried or can I just ignore this one? My database is still small (a pg_dumpall bzippe'd is still around

Re: [GENERAL] Apparent Wraparound?

2007-06-08 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Gunther Mayer wrote: Hi there, I just found the following message in my logs: Jun 8 10:38:38 caligula postgres[56868]: [1-1] : LOG: could not truncate directory pg_subtrans: apparent wraparound Should I be worried or can I just ignore this one? My database is still small (a

[GENERAL] apparent wraparound

2006-11-10 Thread George Pavlov
I see other posts on this log message before, but not clear to me how/if they apply to me. Opinions appreciated. I am on 8.1.3 on Linux. I have a log entry like this: 2006-11-08 12:38:34 PST [3739]: [3-1] LOG: could not truncate directory pg_multixact/members: apparent wraparound Nothing

Re: [GENERAL] apparent wraparound

2006-11-10 Thread Tom Lane
George Pavlov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am on 8.1.3 on Linux. I have a log entry like this: 2006-11-08 12:38:34 PST [3739]: [3-1] LOG: could not truncate directory pg_multixact/members: apparent wraparound During crash recovery? If so, probably nothing to worry about, per this 8.1.5 bug

Re: [GENERAL] apparent wraparound

2006-11-10 Thread George Pavlov
During crash recovery? no crashes, just normal DB operation... ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq

Re: [GENERAL] apparent wraparound

2006-11-10 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 15:21 -0800, George Pavlov wrote: I see other posts on this log message before, but not clear to me how/if they apply to me. Opinions appreciated. I am on 8.1.3 on Linux. I have a log entry like this: 2006-11-08 12:38:34 PST [3739]: [3-1] LOG: could not truncate

Re: [GENERAL] apparent wraparound

2006-11-10 Thread George Pavlov
George Pavlov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: During crash recovery? no crashes, just normal DB operation... Hmm ... what is in pg_multixact/members/ again? Now there is only a file named 0010 the date on which changes about every 4-5 minutes or so. I only noticed the log even with a day+

Re: [GENERAL] apparent wraparound

2006-11-10 Thread Tom Lane
George Pavlov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: George Pavlov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2006-11-08 12:38:34 PST [3739]: [3-1] LOG: could not truncate directory pg_multixact/members: apparent wraparound During crash recovery? no crashes, just normal DB operation... Hmm ... what is in

Re: [GENERAL] apparent wraparound

2006-07-19 Thread Tom Lane
I wrote: Reece Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After a system crash, postgresql 8.1.4 restarted but reported that I have an apparent wraparound: 2006-07-13 14:03:40 PDT [10092] LOG: could not truncate directory pg_multixact/offsets: apparent wraparound 2006-07-13 14:03:40 PDT [10092] LOG:

Re: [GENERAL] apparent wraparound

2006-07-18 Thread Reece Hart
Greg, Florian, Joshua, Tom- On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 17:02 -0700, Gregory S. Williamson wrote: You need to edit the postgresql.conf file and increase the max_fsm_pages and max_fsm_relations parameters and then restart postgres I did this and vacuumed. I didn't need to up shmmax. The problem's

Re: [GENERAL] apparent wraparound

2006-07-15 Thread Florian G. Pflug
Gregory S. Williamson wrote: You need to edit the postgresql.conf file and increase the max_fsm_pages and max_fsm_relations parameters and then restart postgres (I think you have to actually stop and restart, as opposed to a reload, but I could be wrong). You may end up needing to adjust the

Re: [GENERAL] apparent wraparound

2006-07-15 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Florian G. Pflug wrote: Gregory S. Williamson wrote: You need to edit the postgresql.conf file and increase the max_fsm_pages and max_fsm_relations parameters and then restart postgres (I think you have to actually stop and restart, as opposed to a reload, but I could be wrong). You

[GENERAL] apparent wraparound

2006-07-14 Thread Reece Hart
After a system crash, postgresql 8.1.4 restarted but reported that I have an apparent wraparound: 2006-07-13 14:03:40 PDT [10092] LOG: database system was interrupted at 2006-07-13 13:22:19 PDT 2006-07-13 14:03:40 PDT [10092] LOG: checkpoint record is at 1DD/26283E18 2006-07-13 14:03:40 PDT

Re: [GENERAL] apparent wraparound

2006-07-14 Thread Tom Lane
Reece Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After a system crash, postgresql 8.1.4 restarted but reported that I have an apparent wraparound: ... 2006-07-13 14:03:40 PDT [10092] LOG: next MultiXactId: 5475264; next MultiXactOffset: 13765525 ... 2006-07-13 14:03:40 PDT [10092] LOG: could not

Re: [GENERAL] apparent wraparound

2006-07-14 Thread Reece Hart
Tom Lane wrote: I'd ask you the same question I asked Thomas: do you continue to get those log messages during subsequent checkpoints? No, I don't. The error did not reappear during ~2h of continuous inserts since my report, didn't reappear after a forced checkpoint (i.e., via psql), and did

Re: [GENERAL] apparent wraparound

2006-07-14 Thread Gregory S. Williamson
-general Cc: Subject:Re: [GENERAL] apparent wraparound Tom Lane wrote: I'd ask you the same question I asked Thomas: do you continue to get those log messages during subsequent checkpoints? No, I don't. The error did not reappear during ~2h of continuous inserts since my report, didn't