Re: [GENERAL] data file corruption

2013-05-24 Thread PG User
previous block (block 40) to create block boundary, making free space? So from these logs, this looks like this is happening at file level or hardware level, Am I correct? Thank you again. - Nachiket On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 6:22 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > PG User writes: > > ... Later

[GENERAL] data file corruption

2013-05-22 Thread PG User
Hi All, We are facing one strange problem about data file corruptions. We have many postgres databases. At some point, one simple query on one database started crashing back-end. The query is select count(*), col1 from tab1 group by col1; After using pg_filedump (http://pgfoundry.org/projects

Re: [GENERAL] VACUUM FULL performance issues with pg_largeobject table

2010-01-25 Thread PG User 2010
b garbage? Looking at the code for enough_space(), it is almost hard to believe that a lot of time is being spent here, but perhaps it's just getting called a LOT from repair_frag(). I'm no stranger to hacking code if I have tothanks! Sam On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 4:06 PM, PG User 2010 wro

Re: [GENERAL] VACUUM FULL performance issues with pg_largeobject table

2010-01-22 Thread PG User 2010
Hi Tom, As always, your insight is VERY helpful. We'll try your suggestions and see if that helps things out... Thanks! Sam On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > PG User 2010 writes: > > 1) is there any easy way to fiddle with the vacuum process so that it is

[GENERAL] VACUUM FULL performance issues with pg_largeobject table

2010-01-22 Thread PG User 2010
Hi there, I originally posted these questions to the pgsql-performance mailing list, but due to lack of response, I think that these may be more general in nature--so I'm re-posting them here. Apologies for the cross-posting ahead of time. We are having real issues trying to reclaim dead blob sp