Re: [SQL] PostgreSQL server terminated by signal 11

2006-07-27 Thread Tom Lane
Daniel CAUNE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Actually it seems, from the source code, that a null slot->tts_tuple > won't lead to a segmentation fault in function slot_attisnull, while > slot and slot->tts_tupleDescriptor will. I'll bet on D'Arcy's theory that slot is being passed in as NULL. Exactl

Re: [SQL] PostgreSQL server terminated by signal 11

2006-07-27 Thread Daniel CAUNE
> -Message d'origine- > De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > De la part de D'Arcy J.M. Cain > Envoyé : jeudi 27 juillet 2006 19:49 > À : Daniel Caune > Cc : [EMAIL PROTECTED]; pgsql-admin@postgresql.org; pgsql- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Objet : Re: [SQL] PostgreSQL server terminat

Re: [SQL] PostgreSQL server terminated by signal 11

2006-07-27 Thread Daniel CAUNE
> -Message d'origine- > De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > De la part de Tom Lane > Envoyé : jeudi 27 juillet 2006 19:26 > À : Daniel Caune > Cc : pgsql-admin@postgresql.org; pgsql-sql@postgresql.org > Objet : Re: [SQL] PostgreSQL server terminated by signal 11 > > "Daniel

Re: [SQL] PostgreSQL server terminated by signal 11

2006-07-27 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 19:00:27 -0400 "Daniel Caune" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I run the command responsible for creating the index and I entered "continue" > in gdb for executing the command. After a while, the server crashes: > > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. > 0x080

Re: [SQL] PostgreSQL server terminated by signal 11

2006-07-27 Thread Tom Lane
"Daniel Caune" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I run the command responsible for creating the index and I entered "continue" > in gdb for executing the command. After a while, the server crashes: > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. > 0x08079e2a in slot_attisnull () > (gdb)

Re: [SQL] PostgreSQL server terminated by signal 11

2006-07-27 Thread Daniel Caune
> -Message d'origine- > De : Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Envoyé : jeudi, juillet 27, 2006 16:06 > À : Daniel Caune > Cc : pgsql-sql@postgresql.org > Objet : Re: [SQL] PostgreSQL server terminated by signal 11 > > "Daniel Caune" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > My PostgreSQL serve

Re: [SQL] PostgreSQL server terminated by signal 11

2006-07-27 Thread Daniel Caune
> De : Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Envoyé : jeudi, juillet 27, 2006 16:06 > À : Daniel Caune > Cc : pgsql-sql@postgresql.org > Objet : Re: [SQL] PostgreSQL server terminated by signal 11 > > "Daniel Caune" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > My PostgreSQL server running on a Linux machine is

[SQL] return setof records

2006-07-27 Thread Chris Lukenbill
Alright, first I'll apologize for asking this question another time. I've looked throught the archives and have found different ways on both the archives and different ways in the the documentation to do this and depending on which way I do it, I get different errors, so pick your poison on that.

Re: [SQL] Disk is full, what's cool to get rid of?

2006-07-27 Thread Wilkinson Charlie E
Won't help some of us, who set -m 0 on selected filesystems to begin with. But if we could get tune2fs -m -5 to work, then we could unreserve space that didn't previously exist. Think of the possibilties! I'll look into that as soon as I'm done modding my C compiler to handle the --force option

Re: [SQL] Disk is full, what's cool to get rid of?

2006-07-27 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If the data isn't critical, you maybe could truncate a table to clear > enough space. Deleting anything under pg_xlog is more or less > guaranteed to mean your database is garbage. If you're desperate you could shut down the postmaster, run pg_resetxl

Re: [SQL] PostgreSQL server terminated by signal 11

2006-07-27 Thread Tom Lane
"Daniel Caune" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My PostgreSQL server running on a Linux machine is terminated by signal > 11 whenever I try to create some indexes on a table, which contains > quite a lot of data. Judging from your examples it's got something to do with the partial index WHERE clause.

Re: [SQL] Disk is full, what's cool to get rid of?

2006-07-27 Thread Erik Jones
Awesome. Makes sense as 5% is exactly the amount of space that appeared after running it. Thanks! Jeff Frost wrote: Depends what the default is on your system. The default is 5% with the version of mke2fs that I have here, so you would just: tune2fs -m 5 to put it back. On Thu, 27 Jul 2

Re: [SQL] Disk is full, what's cool to get rid of?

2006-07-27 Thread Jeff Frost
Depends what the default is on your system. The default is 5% with the version of mke2fs that I have here, so you would just: tune2fs -m 5 to put it back. On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Erik Jones wrote: Awesome. Do I need to reset that to any magic # after the vacuum? I'm not all that up on files

Re: [SQL] Disk is full, what's cool to get rid of?

2006-07-27 Thread Erik Jones
Awesome. Do I need to reset that to any magic # after the vacuum? I'm not all that up on filesystem maintenance/tweaking... Scott Marlowe wrote: I can't tell you the number of times that little trick has saved my life. On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 11:32, Jeff Frost wrote: You can probably just "

Re: [SQL] Disk is full, what's cool to get rid of?

2006-07-27 Thread Scott Marlowe
I can't tell you the number of times that little trick has saved my life. On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 11:32, Jeff Frost wrote: > You can probably just "tune2fs -m 0 " to give yourself enough > space to get out of the jam before you go deleting things. Then you might > want to vacuum full afterwards.

Re: [SQL] Storage of Binary Data

2006-07-27 Thread Andrew Sullivan
> For my web projects, we have been storing binary data (like images, PDF's, > etc) on the hard drive of the web server instead of the database. Within > the database, we keep information, like whether an image is present, in a > separate column. In most cases, this is probably the best approach.

Re: [SQL] Disk is full, what's cool to get rid of?

2006-07-27 Thread Andrew Sullivan
> administration or maintenance on it that I know of...) How about the > WAL files in pg_xlog? How critical are they when no data on the system > is critical in and of itself? Any suggestions would be greatly > appreciated... If the data isn't critical, you maybe could truncate a table to c

Re: [SQL] Disk is full, what's cool to get rid of?

2006-07-27 Thread Jeff Frost
You can probably just "tune2fs -m 0 " to give yourself enough space to get out of the jam before you go deleting things. Then you might want to vacuum full afterwards. On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Erik Jones wrote: Hello, quick question. I've run into an issue with the disk that my development box

[SQL] Disk is full, what's cool to get rid of?

2006-07-27 Thread Erik Jones
Hello, quick question. I've run into an issue with the disk that my development box is on filling up and preventing pretty much any writing (inserts, updates, deletes, etc...) from happening. Other than some piddly text logs the db is pretty much the only thing on the box. So, my question is

Re: [SQL] PostgreSQL server terminated by signal 11

2006-07-27 Thread Jeff Frost
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Daniel Caune wrote: My PostgreSQL server running on a Linux machine is terminated by signal 11 whenever I try to create some indexes on a table, which contains quite a lot of data. However I succeeded in creating some other indexes without having the PostgreSQL server termi

[SQL] PostgreSQL server terminated by signal 11

2006-07-27 Thread Daniel Caune
Hi,   My PostgreSQL server running on a Linux machine is terminated by signal 11 whenever I try to create some indexes on a table, which contains quite a lot of data.  However I succeeded in creating some other indexes without having the PostgreSQL server terminated:   agora=> CREATE IN

Re: [SQL] Storing an ordered list

2006-07-27 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 20:13:03 -0400, Michael Artz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/26/06, Bruno Wolff III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >If you use numeric instead of int, then it is easy to insert new values. > > Hmm, hadn't thought about that. How would you normally implement it? > I'm thi