[ADMIN] Compile Postgres 8.2.4 under Windows failing

2007-05-02 Thread Verna Violet
I am currently running Windows XP Pro and need to re-compile PostgreSQL as we need to increase the length of the NAMEDATALENGTH parameter to 128. Before attempting to change this value I thought I would see if I could successfully compile PostgreSQl under Windows. I downloaded and installed

[ADMIN] infinite blocking statements in 8.2.3

2007-05-02 Thread Thomas Markus
I'm running 8.2.3 on ubuntu 6.06 (2.6.15-26-server SMP i686) sometimes i have SELECTs that never ends. Normally I drop connections by killing the connection process (kill PID). But these hanging connections (which blocks other statements infinitly) cant be killed. the only way is a pg_ctl -m

[ADMIN] VACUUM FULL ANALYSE hanging

2007-05-02 Thread Gabriele Bartolini
Hi guys, I am having problems with freeing disk space after a massive delete operation on a table that had approximately 80 million record. I ran the following command, by setting the vacuum memory to approximately a GigaByte: SET vacuum_mem TO 1024000 VACUUM FULL ANALYSE VERBOSE

[ADMIN] pg_user pg_shadow out of sync

2007-05-02 Thread Sandy Spence
Hi All, Can any one tell me what I need to do to get this back on if I do a select on pg_user for a particular user and then do a select on users for the same user the expiry and valuntil columns are different? How do I get these to match? Cheers, Sandy ---(end of

Re: [ADMIN] Intermittent Postgres Connection refused Errors (JDBC)

2007-05-02 Thread Srinivas Kotapally
Hi Tom I installed CentOS 4.4 final late last year. The kernel version was the latest about a year back. I have been running yum updates and applying patches regularly. Can you give me any ideas on how to troubleshoot (and establish that this issue is due to a kernel bug) the kernel packet

Re: [ADMIN] infinite blocking statements in 8.2.3

2007-05-02 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Thomas Markus wrote: I'm running 8.2.3 on ubuntu 6.06 (2.6.15-26-server SMP i686) sometimes i have SELECTs that never ends. Normally I drop connections by killing the connection process (kill PID). But these hanging connections (which blocks other statements infinitly) cant be killed.

Re: [ADMIN] pg_user pg_shadow out of sync

2007-05-02 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 11:55:51AM +0100, Sandy Spence wrote: Can any one tell me what I need to do to get this back on if I do a select on pg_user for a particular user and then do a select on users for the same user the expiry and valuntil columns are different? How do I get these to match?

[ADMIN] reindexdb hangs

2007-05-02 Thread dx k9
Hi, What would cause or what should I do with a table that hangs during its reindexing? I can see in the messages the last table to reindex, so sequentially the next table must be the problem. I have statement_timeout set for 6 hours, then I get canceling statement due to statement timeout

[ADMIN] A way to query last checkpoint record and WAL log through SQL?

2007-05-02 Thread Keaton Adams
I have looked in the archives for an answer to this and have not found one as of yet, so I guess I'll pose the question here. I'm working to set up a high-availability PostgreSQL server using WAL shipping. Everything works very well with the set of scripts I have developed and I'm down to my

Re: [ADMIN] VACUUM FULL ANALYSE hanging

2007-05-02 Thread Peter Koczan
I've noticed in my own experiments and experiences with VACUUM FULL that it tries to reindex all the indexes to compress them. While a good idea, this unfortunately takes a *long* time. You should check two things. First, the server CPU usage should be high (~100% if on a single core).

Re: [ADMIN] reindexdb hangs

2007-05-02 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 09:50, dx k9 wrote: Hi, What would cause or what should I do with a table that hangs during its reindexing? I can see in the messages the last table to reindex, so sequentially the next table must be the problem. I have statement_timeout set for 6 hours, then I get

Re: [ADMIN] VACUUM FULL ANALYSE hanging

2007-05-02 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 05:05, Gabriele Bartolini wrote: Hi guys, I am having problems with freeing disk space after a massive delete operation on a table that had approximately 80 million record. I ran the following command, by setting the vacuum memory to approximately a GigaByte:

Re: [ADMIN] reindexdb hangs

2007-05-02 Thread dx k9
Thanks for the response Scott. It turns out it was a temporary database and temporary table, that just wasn't there maybe it thought it was there from some type of snapshot then the next minute it was gone. Too bad we can't come up with a -e parameter for exclude say, Something like this

Re: [ADMIN] VACUUM FULL ANALYSE hanging

2007-05-02 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Peter Koczan escribió: I've noticed in my own experiments and experiences with VACUUM FULL that it tries to reindex all the indexes to compress them. While a good idea, this unfortunately takes a *long* time. Huh, this is not an accurate description of what happens. VACUUM FULL tries to

Re: [ADMIN] reindexdb hangs

2007-05-02 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 10:49, dx k9 wrote: Thanks for the response Scott. It turns out it was a temporary database and temporary table, that just wasn't there maybe it thought it was there from some type of snapshot then the next minute it was gone. Too bad we can't come up with a -e

Re: [ADMIN] STDERR vs. SYSLOG logging

2007-05-02 Thread Spiegelberg, Greg
Kevin Kempter sayeth... Hi List; Anyone have any thoughts per which logging method (SYSLOG vs STDERR) is the better approach ? From looking at 8.2.1 source the internal postgres stderr redirect method only does line buffering which explains why we see a performance gain when we turn

Re: [ADMIN] infinite blocking statements in 8.2.3

2007-05-02 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 03:33, Thomas Markus wrote: I'm running 8.2.3 on ubuntu 6.06 (2.6.15-26-server SMP i686) sometimes i have SELECTs that never ends. Normally I drop connections by killing the connection process (kill PID). You shouldn't do that. You should issue a cancel query to the

[ADMIN] Multiple auth types for a connection

2007-05-02 Thread Rob Cherry
Hi, I am operating in an environment where we have regular users who will authenticate via PAM and software users for automated processes that would be more appropriate to authenticate via a password (encrypted or not - irrelevant to this question). I have taken a look through the documentation

Re: [ADMIN] Multiple auth types for a connection

2007-05-02 Thread Tom Lane
Rob Cherry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone know if it is possible to overload auth types like this such that if pam fails password would be tried? No, it's not, as per the Fine Manual: : The first record with a matching connection type, client address, : requested database, and user name

Re: [ADMIN] Multiple auth types for a connection

2007-05-02 Thread Geoff Tolley
Tom Lane wrote: Rob Cherry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone know if it is possible to overload auth types like this such that if pam fails password would be tried? No, it's not, as per the Fine Manual: Provided that you don't care about the security and performance implications of SSL

Re: [ADMIN] reindexdb hangs

2007-05-02 Thread Tom Lane
dx k9 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [ stuck reindex ] It turns out it was a temporary database and temporary table, that just wasn't there maybe it thought it was there from some type of snapshot then the next minute it was gone. Hmm, there is not any filter in ReindexDatabase() to exclude temp

Re: [ADMIN] pg_user pg_shadow out of sync

2007-05-02 Thread Tom Lane
Sandy Spence [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can any one tell me what I need to do to get this back on if I do a select on pg_user for a particular user and then do a select on users for the same user the expiry and valuntil columns are different? How do I get these to match? It's pretty hard to

Re: [ADMIN] infinite blocking statements in 8.2.3

2007-05-02 Thread Thomas Markus
thanks for your awnsers i cant repeat the problem after increasing autovacuum_naptime to 5min. a vacuumdb -f -a runs over night (and finished :) ) and now that blocking statement finished after some seconds. it seems autovacuum = on is not enough. Thomas Markus schrieb: I'm running 8.2.3