Re: [ADMIN] Troubles with Ident Authetication

2006-12-18 Thread Matthias . Pitzl
Hm, perhaps you should check the logs if the identd is working correctly. Greetings, Matthias > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rodrigo Tavares > Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 1:08 PM > To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org > Subject: [ADM

Re: [ADMIN] out of memory in backup and restore

2006-12-18 Thread Thomas Markus
Hi, i tried various ways to backup that db. if i use a separate 'copy table to 'file' with binary' i can export the problematic table and restore without problems. resulting outputfile is much smaller than default output and runtime is much shorter. is there any way to say pg_dump to use a copy

Re: [ADMIN] invalid types and tables

2006-12-18 Thread Sandy Spence
Hi Tom and Shoaib, Thanks for all your help, the penny dropped and I now understand what you meant by SYSID. I have traced the usename and all is now well. Regards, Sandy Computer Officer, RA Certification Manager Department of Computer Science - UWA Llandinam Building Penglais Campus Aberyst

Re: [ADMIN] invalid types and tables

2006-12-18 Thread Shoaib Mir
Glad to hear that Sandy :) --- Shoaib Mir EnterpriseDB (www.enterprisedb.com) On 12/18/06, Sandy Spence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Tom and Shoaib, Thanks for all your help, the penny dropped and I now understand what you meant by SYSID. I have traced the usename and all is now

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[ADMIN] pg_clog

2006-12-18 Thread Edoardo Ceccarelli
Hi, just encountered this error trying to dump my db: any ideas? Thank you pg_dump: ERROR: could not access status of transaction 1629514106 DETAIL: could not open file "pg_clog/0612": No such file or directory pg_dump: SQL command to dump the contents of table "annuncio400" failed: PQendc

Re: [ADMIN] pg_clog

2006-12-18 Thread Edoardo Ceccarelli
sorry, forgot to mention: PG 8.1.5 On 12/18/06, Edoardo Ceccarelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, just encountered this error trying to dump my db: any ideas? Thank you pg_dump: ERROR: could not access status of transaction 1629514106 DETAIL: could not open file "pg_clog/0612": No such f

Re: [ADMIN] pg_clog

2006-12-18 Thread Shoaib Mir
You can try creating the missing clog file as 256K of zeros, once that is done you can now try going through the pg_dump process again. This suggestion might help you as well --> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-admin/2003-02/msg00263.php - Shoaib Mir EnterpriseDB (www.en

Re: [ADMIN] pg_clog

2006-12-18 Thread Edoardo Ceccarelli
Thanks for the help, I will probably try this but I would like to know how all of this was originated: I am posting here the evolution of my db, hoping that somebody can help: - I upgraded from 7.x to 8.1.5 about 20 days ago - the db is about 2 / 3 giga and the application that works on it has n

[ADMIN] Where in the source is the "database system identifier" generated?

2006-12-18 Thread Joshua Colson
Can anyone point me to where in the source the database system identifier is initially generated at? I've looked through initdb.c and I cannot find it. I've also scoured various other parts of the source to no avail. I may have more luck if I were an accomplished C programmer, but alas, I am not.

Re: [ADMIN] pg_clog

2006-12-18 Thread Tom Lane
"Edoardo Ceccarelli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > pg_dump: ERROR: could not access status of transaction 1629514106 > DETAIL: could not open file "pg_clog/0612": No such file or directory This looks like a data corruption problem to me. It may or may not be significant that 1629514106 = 0x6120

Re: [ADMIN] pg_clog

2006-12-18 Thread Edoardo Ceccarelli
Thanks, I tought about that as well but with PG7.X we had the same machine with the same database running smoothly for more than a year now strange things like this are happening: 2006-12-18 14:49:35 CET [14691] : LOG: server process (PID 13421) wasterminated by signal 11 2006-12-18 14:49:35 CE

Re: [ADMIN] Where in the source is the "database system identifier" generated?

2006-12-18 Thread Tom Lane
Joshua Colson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can anyone point me to where in the source the database system > identifier is initially generated at? In xlog.c I believe (probably in BootstrapXLog). But it's not very interesting, it's just a random number ... regards, tom la

Re: [ADMIN] pg_clog

2006-12-18 Thread Tom Lane
"Edoardo Ceccarelli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I bet a crashing process could cause that data corruption, right? No, Postgres is remarkably resistant to causing corruption during a crash; it's deliberately engineered that way. I don't say this *couldn't* be the explanation but it shouldn't be