Re: [ADMIN] PANIC during VACUUM

2013-04-30 Thread Albe Laurenz
German Becker wrote: I am testing version 9.1.9 before putting it in production. One of my tests involved deleting a the contents of a big table ( ~ 13 GB size) and then VACUUMing it. During VACUUM PANICS. Here is the message: PANIC: corrupted item pointer: offset = 8128, size = 80

Re: [ADMIN] PANIC during VACUUM

2013-04-30 Thread Kevin Grittner
[please don't top-post] German Becker german.bec...@gmail.com wrote: Albe Laurenz laurenz.a...@wien.gv.at wrote: German Becker wrote: I am testing version 9.1.9 before putting it in production. One of my tests involved deleting a the contents of a big table ( ~ 13 GB size) and then

Re: [ADMIN] PANIC during VACUUM

2013-04-30 Thread Albe Laurenz
German Becker wrote: Just in case there are some errors in my first email, where it says after deleting the context of the same big table It should say after deleting de contents of the same big table I essence what i did is DELETE from table; VACUUM table; And I got the error I am

Re: [ADMIN] PANIC during VACUUM

2013-04-30 Thread German Becker
OK I apologise for the lack of clarity of the first message. Let me summarize the steps that lead me to the error. I have 2 servers running Ubuntu 12.04 on which I am testing Postgres 9.1.9. I set up streaming replication between them (no synchronous replication) Both servers have 4 SATA hard

[ADMIN] Some replication-related notes and questions

2013-04-30 Thread Scott Whitney
We recently moved to PG 9.2.4 (from 8.4.4) to take advantage of replication, and I have to say it's pretty awesome. I ran into some things that I was hoping someone could clarify. a) There appears to be no way to tell how far behind my standby servers are. That is, I can find a checkpoint

Re: [ADMIN] Some replication-related notes and questions

2013-04-30 Thread Strahinja Kustudić
I can answer your first question. The way I check the replication delay is by running this query on the replication server: *SELECT now() - pg_last_xact_replay_timestamp();* Of course you need to configure hot standby replication, which you should if you are not. Regards, Strahinja On Tue,