Re: [GENERAL] Lost rows/data corruption?

2005-02-28 Thread Andrew Hall
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Re: [GENERAL] Lost rows/data corruption?

2005-02-17 Thread Andrew Hall
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Re: [GENERAL] Lost rows/data corruption?

2005-02-17 Thread Andrew Hall
I was wondering if this problem had ever shown up on a machine that HADN'T lost power abrubtly or not. IFF the only machines that experience corruption have lost power beforehand sometime, then I would look towards either the drives, controller or file system or somewhere in there. I can't be sure

Re: [GENERAL] Lost rows/data corruption?

2005-02-17 Thread Andrew Hall
Do you happen to have the same type disks in all these systems? That could point to a disk cache "problem" (f.e. the disks lying about having written data from the cache to disk). Or do you use the same disk parameters on all these machines? Have you tried using the disks w/o write caching and/

Re: [GENERAL] Lost rows/data corruption?

2005-02-17 Thread Andrew Hall
I know this is a silly question, but when you write 'We do nothing with any indexes' do you mean indeces are never, _never_ touched (I mean explicitly, as in drop/create index), i.e. they are created at schema creation time and then left alone? Just to make sure... Hi and thanks for your feedback,

Re: [GENERAL] Lost rows/data corruption?

2005-02-16 Thread Andrew Hall
- Original Message - From: "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Andrew Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 3:25 PM Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Lost rows/data corruption? "Andrew Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Here

Re: [GENERAL] Lost rows/data corruption?

2005-02-15 Thread Andrew Hall
nging the way the data is stored) - the version of Jetty (servlet engine) - the DB pool manager and PG JDBC driver versions - the version of PG (tried two or three back from the latest) - various vacuum regimes - Original Message - From: "Marco Colombo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To

Re: [GENERAL] Lost rows/data corruption?

2005-02-14 Thread Andrew Hall
It sounds like a mess, all right. Do you have a procedure to follow to replicate this havoc? Are you sure there's not a hardware problem underlying it all? regards, tom lane We haven't been able to isolate what causes it but it's unlikely to be hardware as it happens on quite a few of our custom

Re: [GENERAL] Lost rows/data corruption?

2005-02-14 Thread Andrew Hall
rigger AFTER DELETE ON user_session FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PRO CEDURE delsessionusagefunc() I'm most concerned that a primary constraint is being actively violated, and I don't understand how this is possible. Any help appreciated. - Original Message - From: "Tom Lane"

[GENERAL] Lost rows / corrupt data?

2005-02-03 Thread Andrew Hall
Hello, We have a long running DB application using PG7.4.6. We do a VACUUM FULL every night and a normal 'maintenance' VACUUM every hour. We do nothing with any indexes. Every now and then we get errors from the database whereby an update will fail on a table saying that there is duplicate viola

[GENERAL] Lost rows/data corruption?

2005-02-03 Thread Andrew Hall
Hello, We have a long running DB application using PG7.4.6. We do a VACUUM FULL every night and a normal 'maintenance' VACUUM every hour. We do nothing with any indexes. Every now and then we get errors from the database whereby an update will fail on a table saying that there is duplicate violatio

[GENERAL] Stored Procedures woes

2004-08-19 Thread Andrew Hall
Hello, We are using a number of stored procedures that are called often from our client programs. I include one here as an example. The problem we are seeing is that when executing some of these that deal with a large number of records, they begin execution and never return. The process handling t