[ADMIN]

2010-05-03 Thread Sam Hamilton
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[ADMIN] out of memory ...

2010-05-03 Thread Jan-Peter Seifert
Hello, how fatal is it for the server/data if a server runs out of memory? Happened on a Windows server some time ago. A transaction got too large. In the log it began with: TopMemoryContext: 37171728 total in 4046 blocks; 67640 free (4060 chunks); 37104088 used TopTransactionC

Re: [ADMIN] out of memory ...

2010-05-03 Thread Cédric Villemain
2010/5/3 Jan-Peter Seifert : > Hello, > > how fatal is it for the server/data if a server runs out of memory? > > Happened on a Windows server some time ago. A transaction got too large. In > the log it began with: > > > TopMemoryContext: 37171728 total in 4046 blocks; 67640 free (406

Re: [ADMIN] Ubuntu 10.04 - Cannot Create TCP/IP Sockets

2010-05-03 Thread Dai, Tino
Couple of things to try: - The default process is not postmaster any more, rather is it postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/server-start.html - Try manually starting up the postgres with the debug cranked all the way up, see what that gives you in the server logs - Perhaps

Re: [ADMIN] Ubuntu 10.04 - Cannot Create TCP/IP Sockets

2010-05-03 Thread Yeb Havinga
Maybe SElinux is in the way? Dai, Tino wrote: Couple of things to try: - The default process is not postmaster any more, rather is it postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/server-start.html - Try manually starting up the postgres with the debug cranked all the way up, see

Re: [ADMIN] Ubuntu 10.04 - Cannot Create TCP/IP Sockets

2010-05-03 Thread Kevin Grittner
"Daniel J. Summers" wrote: > 2010-05-03 03:36:06 UTC HINT: Is another postmaster already > running on port 5432? If not, wait a few seconds and retry. Just to be thorough, you got the same errors in the log when you tried the start later? -Kevin -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql

Re: [ADMIN] Autovacuum stopped running

2010-05-03 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Benjamin Krajmalnik wrote: > OK. > This happened again on another server with these same settings. > I did not see any long running transaction, and the autovacuum launch > process was running. Did you check the server log for FATAL or ERROR lines? Maybe it's dying trying to vacuum some table and

Re: [ADMIN] Autovacuum stopped running

2010-05-03 Thread Kevin Grittner
"Benjamin Krajmalnik" wrote: > This happened again on another server with these same settings. > I did not see any long running transaction, and the autovacuum > launch process was running. Like last time, all ten autovacuum workers were running? What does CPU and disk activity look like in t

Re: [ADMIN] Ubuntu 10.04 - Cannot Create TCP/IP Sockets

2010-05-03 Thread Tom Lane
Yeb Havinga writes: >> 2010-05-03 03:36:06 UTC LOG: could not bind IPv4 socket: Cannot assign >> requested address Does it work if you change listen_addresses to '*' or '127.0.0.1' ? >> ..and localhost is resolving... >> r...@coolnewserver:~# nslookup localhost nslookup isn't a terribly reliab

Re: [ADMIN] Ubuntu 10.04 - Cannot Create TCP/IP Sockets

2010-05-03 Thread Daniel J. Summers
On 05/03/2010 11:55 AM, Dai, Tino wrote: Couple of things to try: - The default process is not postmaster any more, rather is it postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/server-start.html Any idea where this would be located? It's not in any of the usual places. I found

Re: [ADMIN] Autovacuum stopped running

2010-05-03 Thread Tom Lane
"Benjamin Krajmalnik" writes: > This happened again on another server with these same settings. > I did not see any long running transaction, and the autovacuum launch > process was running. Hmm ... could you strace the launcher for a couple of minutes to see whether it's doing anything? Also, I

Re: [ADMIN] Ubuntu 10.04 - Cannot Create TCP/IP Sockets

2010-05-03 Thread Daniel J. Summers
On 05/03/2010 01:52 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Yeb Havinga writes: 2010-05-03 03:36:06 UTC LOG: could not bind IPv4 socket: Cannot assign requested address Does it work if you change listen_addresses to '*' or '127.0.0.1' ? Bingo - changing it to "*" got it started. :) ..and

Re: [ADMIN] Ubuntu 10.04 - Cannot Create TCP/IP Sockets

2010-05-03 Thread Tom Lane
"Daniel J. Summers" writes: > On 05/03/2010 01:52 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >> Does it work if you change listen_addresses to '*' or '127.0.0.1' ? > Bingo - changing it to "*" got it started. :) OK, what about 127.0.0.1? Given that "dig localhost" returns that, it *should* behave the same, but obvio

Re: [ADMIN] Autovacuum stopped running

2010-05-03 Thread Kevin Grittner
Tom Lane wrote: > Also, I've forgotten exactly which PG version you're running? The original post said: PostgreSQL 8.4.3 amd64 on FreeBSD 7.2. -Kevin -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpre

[ADMIN] Information required

2010-05-03 Thread M.Nasir Aftab
Dear Recipient ; I have a batch of SQL script .As I run that in agAdmin||| there display an error . But I am unable to find the line which is producing the error . please inform me is there any software that can be use to debug the query using in postgres . I shall be than

[ADMIN] Can I safely kill a VACUUM ANALYZE with pg_cancel_backend 8.3

2010-05-03 Thread Jason Culverhouse
HI, I have a vacuum process that has been running on a table for the past 20 days. The server is postgres 8.3 on ubuntu linux. Can I safely kill the vacuum with: select pg_cancel_backend(26433) Some stats The table sees ~5million and not more than ~10million updates month $ ps aux | gre

[ADMIN] Runaway Locks

2010-05-03 Thread Kamcheung Sham
I was connecting to Postgres 8.3 through JDBC. During my unit tests, something when wrong and now leaving with the following locks in the db: arc_dev=# select locktype, mode, relname, virtualtransaction, pid from pg_locks l join pg_class c on l.relation = c.oid;

[ADMIN] How to query hostname of the server

2010-05-03 Thread Péter Kovács
Hi, I have a number of PostgreSQL servers which I often access through ssh tunnel with Pgadmin3. I would like to double check which one I have landed on (if the tunnel is really configured the way I want). Is there a way to query the hostname from the catalogs? Thanks Peter

Re: [ADMIN] Information required

2010-05-03 Thread Kevin Grittner
"M.Nasir Aftab" wrote: > I have a batch of SQL script .As I run that in > agAdmin||| there display an error . > But I am unable to find the line which is producing the error . It's hard to know what to suggest without knowing what the script is or what the error is. This page may give you som

Re: [ADMIN] Autovacuum stopped running

2010-05-03 Thread Benjamin Krajmalnik
Tom, 1. I had to restart the postgres server, otherwise I would have been in deep problems. 2. I just tried installing strace from the ports system - unfortunately it appears that FreeBSD only has it for i38s, not amd64. Any alternatives so that if this happens again I can take care of this? >

Re: [ADMIN] Autovacuum stopped running

2010-05-03 Thread Benjamin Krajmalnik
I did not find any errors pertaining to the autovacuum task. In both cases we had a data-centric issue which was causing excessive errors on the database (we have a timestamp field and an external utility which we use to collect product keys was sending the date as "dd/mm/ hh:mm:ss" for some en

Re: [ADMIN] Autovacuum stopped running

2010-05-03 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Benjamin Krajmalnik wrote: > I did not find any errors pertaining to the autovacuum task. Hmm. I think it would be good to find out what is the launcher doing, if anything. If you strace it, do you see it sending signals to postmaster? -- Alvaro Herrerahttp://ww

Re: [ADMIN] Ubuntu 10.04 - Cannot Create TCP/IP Sockets

2010-05-03 Thread Daniel J. Summers
On 05/03/2010 02:20 PM, Tom Lane wrote: "Daniel J. Summers" writes: On 05/03/2010 01:52 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Does it work if you change listen_addresses to '*' or '127.0.0.1' ? Bingo - changing it to "*" got it started. :) OK, what about 127.0.0.1? Given that "di