[ADMIN] Data Corruption?

2001-02-02 Thread Robin's Postgres List Archive
Hello, After about a year and a half of use, I ran into a peculiar problem with my PostgreSQL driven app and I would like to understand why. I have a web app that uses PostgreSQL 6.5.2 on the backend. The app logic is Java beans and JSP. The OS is RedHat 6.2 i386. Anyways, there are two ide

[ADMIN] Unfamiliar SQL Exceptions

2000-11-02 Thread Robin's Postgres List Archive
The following two SQL Exceptions are popping up after several days or weeks of seemingly smooth execution: "Unknown Response Type x" <= where x is a random ASCII character and "The column index is out of range" Once one of these two SQL Exceptions start occurring, pretty much all queries af

Re: [ADMIN] Enormous pg_sorttemp~ files when using "OR"

1999-12-18 Thread Robin&#x27;s Postgres List Archive
appens on 3 of my 4 machines on a monthly > basis. This really needs to be fixed because vacuum won't run without > the serial fields being unique. > > All of the above running 6.5.3 > > Andy > > On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Robin's Postgres List Archive wrote: > &g

[ADMIN] Enormous pg_sorttemp~ files when using "OR"

1999-12-18 Thread Robin&#x27;s Postgres List Archive
Hi Folks, When I write a query with a "WHERE" claused constrained by the "OR" operator, postgresql creates the enormous pg_sorttemp~ files in ~pgsql/data/base/dbName/ that basically eat up all remaining disk space in a matter of seconds. These files are 1.8GB+ by the time the partition is full.

Re: [ADMIN] Problem with regression testing

1999-09-10 Thread Robin&#x27;s Postgres List Archive
Problem solved, thank you for the responses! Yes, I had run initdb as outlined in the instructions. Then I received a tip from someone on the list suggesting: "do: rpm -qa | grep postgres then, for each package it returns: rpm -e " Which I did. At that point, running createdb gave me a *new* e