Re: [GENERAL] What kind of locks does vacuum process hold on the db?

2007-08-30 Thread Nitin Verma
ilto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 4:07 PM To: Nitin Verma Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] What kind of locks does vacuum process hold on the db? On 8/30/07, Nitin Verma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why are you doing FULL vacuums? Is there

[GENERAL] Parallel transactions to full vacuum

2007-08-30 Thread Nitin Verma
I have experimented vacuuming a table and running transaction on the same. It works fine without pause injection. Is that because of MVCC?

Re: [GENERAL] What kind of locks does vacuum process hold on the db?

2007-08-30 Thread Nitin Verma
akes a hard lock on a table. That means Table Level AccessExclusiveLock, right? -Original Message- From: Scott Marlowe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 10:29 AM To: Nitin Verma Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] What kind of locks does vacuum

[GENERAL] What kind of locks does vacuum process hold on the db?

2007-08-29 Thread Nitin Verma
What kind of locks does it hold on the db? Table level / Row level / AccessExclusiveLock ? Is there a document that details vacuum process, and its internals? Use case: I am doing a vacuum {all full analyze} on a postgres 8.1 hosting two user databases. For this I am using ${pg-home}/bin/vacuumdb

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: XLogFlush: request

2007-04-13 Thread Nitin Verma
/www.postgresql.org/docs/7.3/static/release-7-3-5.html * Force zero_damaged_pages to be on during recovery from WAL Is this related to XLogFlush problem? -Original Message- From: Scott Marlowe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 9:26 PM To: Nitin Verma Cc: pgsql

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: XLogFlush: request

2007-04-13 Thread Nitin Verma
me on a lower risk of getting in this situation? -Original Message- From: Alvaro Herrera [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 8:59 PM To: Nitin Verma Cc: Tom Lane; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: XLogFlush: request Nitin Verma wrote: > Thanx Tom, any

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: XLogFlush: request

2007-04-13 Thread Nitin Verma
y use of or Is it safe to restart postmaster at this time? What all should be done when this happened? Any suggestions. = -Original Message- From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 8:18 PM To: Nitin Verma Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [G

[GENERAL] ERROR: XLogFlush: request

2007-04-13 Thread Nitin Verma
Hi All, xlog.c code from version we use (7.3.2) /* * If we still haven't flushed to the request point then we have a * problem; most likely, the requested flush point is past end of * XLOG. This has been seen to occur when a disk page has a corrupted *

[GENERAL] ERROR: XLogFlush request 0/240169BC is not satisfied

2007-04-11 Thread Nitin Verma
java.sql.SQLException: ERROR: XLogFlush: request 0/240169BC is not satisfied --- flushed only to 0/23FFC01C This error I was in the logs of a java process that was failing to get some data. But using psql I was able to connect and query all the data. Thus this may indicate some connection / state

Re: [GENERAL] initlocation on 8.0+

2006-06-26 Thread Nitin Verma
Thanx Scott and Michael -Original Message- From: Michael Fuhr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 9:18 PM To: Nitin Verma Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] initlocation on 8.0+ On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 08:31:22AM -0700, Nitin Verma wrote: > I

[GENERAL] initlocation on 8.0+

2006-06-26 Thread Nitin Verma
supported. Regards, Nitin Verma ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match

Re: [GENERAL] VACUUMing sometimes increasing database size / sometimes

2006-06-16 Thread Nitin Verma
0002 Looks like if a WAL file is created even vacuum can't reclaim the space. Is that the root cause behind DB bloating with 7.3.2? -Original Message- From: Richard Huxton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 6:29 PM To: Nitin Verma Cc: pgsql-general@postgresq

Re: [GENERAL] VACUUMing sometimes increasing database size / sometimes

2006-06-16 Thread Nitin Verma
Thanx so much which would really help -Original Message- From: Richard Huxton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 6:29 PM To: Nitin Verma Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] VACUUMing sometimes increasing database size / sometimes Nitin Verma wrote

Re: [GENERAL] VACUUMing sometimes increasing database size / sometimes

2006-06-16 Thread Nitin Verma
nges between 7.3 and 8.1, may be release by release? -Original Message- From: Florian G. Pflug [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 4:48 PM To: Douglas McNaught Cc: Nitin Verma; Jim Nasby; pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] VACUUMing sometimes increasing d

Re: [GENERAL] VACUUMing sometimes increasing database size / sometimes

2006-06-16 Thread Nitin Verma
te problem in export and import across versions may hit. So please let me know all the do's and don'ts... or the pointers to those. -Original Message- From: Jim Nasby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 1:54 AM To: Florian G.Pflug Cc: Nitin Verma; pgsql-ge

[GENERAL] VACUUMing sometimes increasing database size / sometimes crashing it

2006-06-15 Thread Nitin Verma
Were these bugs fixed by 7.3.2, if not what version should I look for? http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-admin/2001-06/msg5.php http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2000-04/msg00083.php It would be gr8 if can myself look into bug list next time before asking questions, any URL? -

Re: [GENERAL] VACUUMing sometimes increasing database size / sometimes crashing it

2006-06-15 Thread Nitin Verma
Is there a workaround for any of these? -Original Message- From: Nitin Verma Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 11:03 PM To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: VACUUMing sometimes increasing database size / sometimes crashing it Were these bugs fixed by 7.3.2, if not what version should