There is an option to send the logs to cloudwatch which makes it less awful to look at them.
On Wed, May 26, 2021, 11:52 AM Ron <ronljohnso...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 5/26/21 1:24 PM, Rob Sargent wrote: > > > My question is: > Should I be surprised that the initial bulk loaded table is nowhere to be > seen, given the thumbs up from the logs? Is this frailty inherent in > AWS/RDS infrastructure? > > Since this is an academic exorcise, I have minimal AWS support, which has > yet to chime in on this matter. My access to the logs is um, er, > constrained. > > > The big differences I notice are: > > 1. "postgres" is not a superuser, > 2. viewing logs is a hassle. > > Otherwise, they're really similar. We've pumped about 6TB of data into an > instance, and it's been rock solid. JBoss is quite happy, and there > haven't been any problems. > > -- > Angular momentum makes the world go 'round. > > Good to hear. > I pushed this same data set into our previous server (Version 10) so I was > surprised it blew up this time, though in that case these separate files > were more spread out in arrival time. Nothing in the (available) logs > other that lots of auto-vacuuming and the suggestion to increase wal size > (which I thought a little surprising). I really would like to know just > what went south but that isn't obvious yet - OOM?, network?, disk full? but > I can't find any smoking gun on the AWS/RDS pages. > > > The difficulty in viewing logs needs to be emphasized. > > -- > Angular momentum makes the world go 'round. >