Re: [GENERAL] How many postmasters should be running?

2006-02-28 Thread Stock, Stuart
time snapshot of the postmaster fork()'ing to handle these connections, but because they were rejected, it never had time to rename itself to 'postgres'? Stuart -Original Message- From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 10:09 PM To: Michael Fu

[GENERAL] How many postmasters should be running?

2006-02-27 Thread Stock, Stuart
Hello, A few minutes ago, we were surprised to find a second postmaster process running on our database machine as a child of the original postmaster. The child postmaster was around for about a minute then disappeared. This is a Opteron machine running RedHat AS4 with Postgres 8.1.2. Does the po

[GENERAL] Getting "cannot remove lock from HTAB" during VACUUM FULL

2005-11-28 Thread Stock, Stuart
Title: Getting "cannot remove lock from HTAB" during VACUUM FULL All, During our weekly VACUUM FULL we get a "ERROR: cannot remove lock from HTAB" message and then the database appears to hang completely. Other processes can connect to the database, but all queries hang. We must stop the dat

Re: [GENERAL] Errors upgrading from 7.3 to 8.1

2005-11-28 Thread Stock, Stuart
FYI in case you still have the problem after using pg_dump from 8.1 (we did) you may have an encoding mismatch between your 7.3 and 8.1 databases. Our 7.x database was SQL_ASCII while 8.1 defaults to creating databases as UTF-8. I had similar "invalid UTF-8 byte sequence" errors. I fixed it by usin

RE: [GENERAL] Error: cannot write block XX of XXXXX/XXXXX blind: resource tempo rarily unavailable

2001-06-21 Thread Stock, Stuart H.
> -Original Message- > From: Larry Rosenman [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 12:19 PM > To: Tom Lane > Cc: Stock, Stuart H.; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Error: cannot write block XX of X/X > blind: re

[GENERAL] Error: cannot write block XX of XXXXX/XXXXX blind: resource temporarily unavailable

2001-06-21 Thread Stock, Stuart H.
All, After searching the mailing list archives, Deja's comp.databases.postgresql.* archives, the Postgres docs, and Google I cannot find an answer to a strange error I am seeing, so I seek your wisdom. I am running Postgresql 7.1.1 compiled with GCC 2.95.2 on a Sun 220 Solaris 2.8 box and