Re: [ADMIN] Dumping a database that is not accepting commands?

2013-09-17 Thread Kevin Grittner
Natalie Wenz wrote: > I have a large database from our test environment that got into trouble with > some high volume and some long-running queries about…six weeks ago? We have a > buffer mechanism that has been storing the new data since the database stopped > accepting connections, so we haven'

Re: [ADMIN] Too many WAL archive files

2013-09-17 Thread Keith Ouellette
Okay, I guess it makes sense that I am at 16GB based on your explanation below. I do not have a space constraint, so having 16GB is not the problem. The problem is that we have experienced connectivity issues in the past where replication would not startup. I would do a "manual" sync using rsync

Re: [ADMIN] New autovacuum messages in postgres log after upgrade

2013-09-17 Thread Kevin Grittner
Benjamin Krajmalnik wrote: > During a maintenance window, we upgraded our systems to Postgres > 9.0.13 from 9.0.3 running on FreeBSD 8.1 amd64. > When we restarted the postgres server, I notices, and continue to > notice, a recurrence of messages in the log. > > 2013-09-16 21:15:58 MDT LOG:  aut

[ADMIN] Script timeout

2013-09-17 Thread Roberto Grandi
Dear all, i would set a script timeout from a .net application. My problem regards how to make sure that time out will be reset at the end of the script such as SET statement_timeout 1000 SELECT pg_sleep(2); trowhs exception After that SELECT pg_sleep(2); wouldn't throw exception. Can yo

Re: [ADMIN] Dumping a database that is not accepting commands?

2013-09-17 Thread Natalie Wenz
On Sep 17, 2013, at 7:43 AM, Kevin Grittner wrote: > Natalie Wenz wrote: > >> I have a large database from our test environment that got into trouble with >> some high volume and some long-running queries about…six weeks ago? We have a >> buffer mechanism that has been storing the new data sinc

Re: [ADMIN] Dumping a database that is not accepting commands?

2013-09-17 Thread Natalie Wenz
No… the shared_buffers value is just a legacy value that never got changed (the shmmax value in sysctl is still 1073741824). When I set up the new database, I set the shared_buffers to 25% of system memory, so 12GB. (And since the new database is on 9.3, I didn't have to adjust the sysctl valu

Re: [ADMIN] Script timeout

2013-09-17 Thread Roberto Grandi
Hi, I think your suggestion is SELECT set_config('statement_timeout','1000 s',false); -- enable timeout -- -- DO SQL Statements here -- SELECT set_config('statement_timeout','0',false); -- disable timeout Am I correct? Moreover what can happen if another query runs on the same connection p

Re: [ADMIN] Dumping a database that is not accepting commands?

2013-09-17 Thread Natalie Wenz
It occurs to me that asking for feedback on the tuning, I am asking about two separate things: Was there anything in the tuning below that contributed to the database getting into trouble? And is there anything I should change in that tuning to make the single-user vacuum as fast as it can be f

Re: [ADMIN] Script timeout

2013-09-17 Thread Federico
This should work. SELECT set_config('statement_timeout','1000 s',false); The set_config function is quite flexible as can accept dynamic values. More info here http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/functions-admin.html I've used successfully to change the script timeout for each statement

Re: [ADMIN] Dumping a database that is not accepting commands?

2013-09-17 Thread Kevin Grittner
Natalie Wenz wrote: > Sorry; my description of what is going on was a little unclear. > We didn't upgrade the existing database. We moved it to different > hardware, and just created a brand new database to accept the > data that had been backing up in sqlite files while our original > database w

Re: [ADMIN] Dumping a database that is not accepting commands?

2013-09-17 Thread bricklen
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Natalie Wenz wrote: > maintenance_work_mem| 10GB > shared_buffers | 128MB > maintenance_work_mem seems pretty high, and shared_buffers seems really low. Out of curiousity, were those set as a product of internal testing which determ