[ADMIN] Logrotate

2002-11-20 Thread Luis Sousa
Hi all, I'm running postgresql 7.2.1 on a debian 3.0 machine and I want to do some log rotation, but I'm having some problems. The configuration that I'm using is: In /etc/logrotate.d/postgres: /var/log/postgres.log { weekly rotate 52 compress delaycompress not

Re: [ADMIN] VACUUM

2002-11-20 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 05:18:06PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > > The business about "you must vacuum at least every billion transactions" > is a different issue. Either plain or full vacuum will satisfy that > requirement. Note, also, that it is _every_ table needs to be vacuumed in that billion tr

[ADMIN] crash help, pgsql 7.2.1 on RH7.3

2002-11-20 Thread Tim Lynch
running pgsql 7.2.1 on redhat7.3 SMP. installed a hacked glibc to fix the mktime() timezone problem for dates < 1970 (http://rpms.arvin.dk/glibc/rh73/i686/) three times now the backend process has unexpectedly quit. what happens is the postmaster process and the stats processes disappear and only

Re: [ADMIN] Logrotate

2002-11-20 Thread Robert Treat
This is just a guess, but try changing your script to do reload instead of restart. Robert Treat On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 05:14, Luis Sousa wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm running postgresql 7.2.1 on a debian 3.0 machine and I want to do > some log rotation, but I'm having some problems. The configuratio

Re: [ADMIN] crash help, pgsql 7.2.1 on RH7.3

2002-11-20 Thread Tom Lane
"Tim Lynch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > running pgsql 7.2.1 on redhat7.3 SMP. installed a hacked glibc to fix the > mktime() timezone problem for dates < 1970 > (http://rpms.arvin.dk/glibc/rh73/i686/) > three times now the backend process has unexpectedly quit. what happens is > the postmaster p

Re: [ADMIN] crash help, pgsql 7.2.1 on RH7.3

2002-11-20 Thread Tom Lane
I said: > "Tim Lynch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> i don't see a core file. > Check that you are starting the postmaster with "ulimit -c unlimited"; > this is not the default on most Linuxen, so you may have to add that to > the start script. Also note that the postmaster never does a chdir, >