Re: [GENERAL] Cannot start Postgres- FATAL: invalid cache id: 19

2010-12-01 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Wednesday 01 December 2010 1:15:45 pm Jolles, Peter M (GE Energy) wrote: > On Wednesday, December 01, 2010 1:59 PM Vick Khera wrote: > > the original hint said to "use a standalone backend". > > > > If you go to http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/routine- > > vacuuming.html > > secti

Re: [GENERAL] Cannot start Postgres- FATAL: invalid cache id: 19

2010-12-01 Thread Tom Lane
"Jolles, Peter M (GE Energy)" writes: > I apologize for the seeming dumb questions, but I have tried to start > the database using the following command: > postgres --single -D "d:/database" mydatabase > That gets me a new line in my command prompt window and nothing else. Hmm ... try it with "

Re: [GENERAL] Cannot start Postgres- FATAL: invalid cache id: 19

2010-12-01 Thread Vick Khera
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Jolles, Peter M (GE Energy) wrote: > I apologize for the seeming dumb questions, but I have tried to start > the database using the following command: > > postgres --single -D "d:/database" mydatabase > > That gets me a new line in my command prompt window and nothi

Re: [GENERAL] Cannot start Postgres- FATAL: invalid cache id: 19

2010-12-01 Thread Jolles, Peter M (GE Energy)
On Wednesday, December 01, 2010 1:59 PM Vick Khera wrote: > the original hint said to "use a standalone backend". > > If you go to http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/routine- > vacuuming.html > section 23.1.4 it will describe exactly what just happened to you and how to > recover. I a

Re: [GENERAL] Cannot start Postgres- FATAL: invalid cache id: 19

2010-12-01 Thread Vick Khera
the original hint said to "use a standalone backend". If you go to http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/routine-vacuuming.html section 23.1.4 it will describe exactly what just happened to you and how to recover. On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Jolles, Peter M (GE Energy) wrote: > Is

Re: [GENERAL] Cannot start Postgres- FATAL: invalid cache id: 19

2010-12-01 Thread Jolles, Peter M (GE Energy)
On Wednesday, December 01, 2010 1:27 PM Vick Khera wrote: > Just how big is the table and how many transactions per second do you push > through it? Perhaps your I/O bandwidth is just insufficient for your load > level. > The entire database is about 700 GB. In the database I've got approximatel

Re: [GENERAL] Cannot start Postgres- FATAL: invalid cache id: 19

2010-12-01 Thread Vick Khera
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Jolles, Peter M (GE Energy) wrote: > EST WARNING:  database "fps_data" must be vacuumed within 1100 > transactions > > I know now that I'm going to have to slow down the transaction rate in order > to let the autovacuum keep up, but at this point I am just tr

[GENERAL] Cannot start Postgres- FATAL: invalid cache id: 19

2010-12-01 Thread Jolles, Peter M (GE Energy)
On Wednesday, December 01, 2010 9:58 AM Vick Khera wrote: > On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Jolles, Peter M (GE Energy) wrote: > > 2010-11-29 12:39:17 EST HINT:  Stop the postmaster and use a > > standalone backend to vacuum that database. > > so did you do what the HINT told you to do? does it

Re: [GENERAL] Cannot start Postgres- FATAL: invalid cache id: 19

2010-12-01 Thread Tom Lane
Vick Khera writes: > On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Jolles, Peter M (GE Energy) > wrote: >> 2010-11-29 12:39:17 EST HINT:  Stop the postmaster and use a standalone >> backend to vacuum that database. > so did you do what the HINT told you to do? does it still not startup? This is the second r

Re: [GENERAL] Cannot start Postgres- FATAL: invalid cache id: 19

2010-12-01 Thread Vick Khera
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Jolles, Peter M (GE Energy) wrote: > 2010-11-29 12:39:17 EST HINT:  Stop the postmaster and use a standalone > backend to vacuum that database. so did you do what the HINT told you to do? does it still not startup? > > I had multiple auto-vacuum instances running

[GENERAL] Cannot start Postgres- FATAL: invalid cache id: 19

2010-12-01 Thread Jolles, Peter M (GE Energy)
I am having problems starting up Postgres and am getting the following error: 2010-12-01 08:36:42 EST LOG: database system was shut down at 2010-11-29 17:38:17 EST 2010-12-01 08:36:42 EST FATAL: invalid cache id: 19 2010-12-01 08:36:43 EST FATAL: the database system is starting up 2010-12-01 08