[BUGS] Missing tables in postgresql 7.2.4

2005-05-11 Thread Michael Beckstette
Hi, we recently discovered on our production database an a little bit bizarre problem (after two years stable operations). Some tables are simply missing, or sometimes the affected table(s) is/are there but not listed in pg_tables. An example (I am looking for the table kog_blasthit_tables): dev

[BUGS] BUG #1658: Error download of odbc

2005-05-11 Thread Marcio Roberto Chiaveli
The following bug has been logged online: Bug reference: 1658 Logged by: Marcio Roberto Chiaveli Email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PostgreSQL version: 7.2 Operating system: windows Description:Error download of odbc Details: When doing download of the driver ODBC, wh

[BUGS] BUG #1657: Database don't start

2005-05-11 Thread Miguel Higuera
The following bug has been logged online: Bug reference: 1657 Logged by: Miguel Higuera Email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PostgreSQL version: 8.0 Operating system: Windows XP Description:Database don't start Details: Hi I have Install Postgresql 8 on Windows Xp Prof

[BUGS] BUG #1659: primary key accepts null value

2005-05-11 Thread İbrahim
The following bug has been logged online: Bug reference: 1659 Logged by: İbrahim Email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PostgreSQL version: 8.0.2 Operating system: Windows XP sp1 Description:primary key accepts null value Details: i m using pg 8.0.2 in a project with Visu

Re: [BUGS] Bug Report with Postgres 7.4 on AIX 5.3

2005-05-11 Thread Vincent Vanwynsberghe
The AIX 5.3 provide the structure sockaddr_storage : struct sockaddr_storage { ushort_t__ss_family;/* address family */ char__ss_pad1[_SS_PAD1SIZE]; /* pad up to alignment field */ #if defined(__64BIT__) || (defined(_ALL_SOURCE) && defined(_LONG_LONG))

Re: [BUGS] Missing tables in postgresql 7.2.4

2005-05-11 Thread Tom Lane
"Michael Beckstette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > we recently discovered on our production database an a little bit bizarre > problem (after two years stable operations). Some tables are simply missing, > or > sometimes the affected table(s) is/are there but not listed in pg_tables. This sounds

Re: [BUGS] Bug Report with Postgres 7.4 on AIX 5.3

2005-05-11 Thread Tom Lane
Vincent Vanwynsberghe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The AIX 5.3 provide the structure sockaddr_storage : > ... > In Postgress this structure sockaddr_storage is filled with the structure > sockaddr_un but the size of sockaddr_storage > is less then the size of sockaddr_un and cause a memory overfl

Re: [BUGS] Missing tables in postgresql 7.2.4

2005-05-11 Thread Michael Beckstette
Hi Tom, this is the output from 'SELECT datname, age(datfrozenxid) FROM pg_database;' datname | age -+- xgc | -1950241750 dev_db | -1886587214 template1 | -1884294460 template0 | -1884294460 promo_db| -1884294460 snap_db_new | -188429446

Re: [BUGS] Missing tables in postgresql 7.2.4

2005-05-11 Thread Michael Beckstette
Hi, after reading the docs (I know it was a little bit late), I am now relatively sure that I trapped into a transaction ID wraparound problem. For me its now a little bit unclear, how to proceed in order to minimize the caused damage. I checked all tables in the affected DB. Till now, the result

[BUGS] BUG #1660: Growing used memory and critical performance loss

2005-05-11 Thread Bogdan Matei
The following bug has been logged online: Bug reference: 1660 Logged by: Bogdan Matei Email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PostgreSQL version: 7.3.2 Operating system: Red Hat 9.0 (everything standard distribution) Description:Growing used memory and critical performance l

Re: [BUGS] Missing tables in postgresql 7.2.4

2005-05-11 Thread Tom Lane
"Michael Beckstette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The 6 completely lost tables are not so dramatical, because they contain only > static data, that I can restore from the development system. But what happens > with the 8 tables that are still accessable, but not listed in pg_tables, > after > a V

Re: [BUGS] Bug Report with Postgres 7.4 on AIX 5.3

2005-05-11 Thread Andrew - Supernews
On 2005-05-11, Vincent Vanwynsberghe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The AIX 5.3 provide the structure sockaddr_storage : > > struct sockaddr_storage { > ushort_t__ss_family;/* address family */ > char__ss_pad1[_SS_PAD1SIZE]; /* pad up to alignment > field */ >

Re: [BUGS] BUG #1660: Growing used memory and critical performance loss

2005-05-11 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 04:56:28PM +0100, Bogdan Matei wrote: > These are the efects. First of all we thought that is our application that > consumes all the performance of Postgresql, with a predilection in the peak > time of traffic, we improved it very well but even so there is no change. > Wh

Re: [BUGS] Missing tables in postgresql 7.2.4

2005-05-11 Thread Michael Beckstette
Hi, On May 11, 2:39pm, Tom Lane wrote: > What I would recommend as a first step is to stop the postmaster and > then take a tarball backup of the entire $PGDATA tree. This will at > least provide a chance to go back if subsequent tries mess things up > completely. Done. This was probably the

Re: [BUGS] Missing tables in postgresql 7.2.4

2005-05-11 Thread John R Pierce
P.S.:A TODO for me: CRON Script for weekly VACUUM ;) on heavy use databases, mine generally does a light vacuum every 4 hours, and a once a day full on everything. also, a weekly full reindex on a really really heavy use systems like this one message board server I ad-mangle something like...

Re: [BUGS] Missing tables in postgresql 7.2.4

2005-05-11 Thread Tom Lane
"Michael Beckstette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On May 11, 2:39pm, Tom Lane wrote: >> If it does, go ahead and do a database-wide plain VACUUM, and you >> should be OK. > Done. As far as I can tell, everything is OK again. Sweet ;-) In the words of my former business partner, a private pilot

[BUGS] Do dropdb and createdb read password from .pgpass file?

2005-05-11 Thread Sankaran Anupama
Hi, I'm using the pg_dump and pg_restore client applications to implement our database backup-restore strategies. Wrt this, inorder to be able to autoamate the backup process (run it as a cron job), I'm using the .pgpass file for automating the password input. This is working for pg_dump. My res