Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation with OID

2015-04-22 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 04/22/2015 02:37 PM, Steve Crawford wrote: On 04/22/2015 01:25 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote: If it is of importance, it appears that a temporary table and temporary index were being created within the same second that the query was run. Any advice? WHERE relkind = 'r' AND relpersiste

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation with OID

2015-04-22 Thread Steve Crawford
On 04/22/2015 01:25 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote: If it is of importance, it appears that a temporary table and temporary index were being created within the same second that the query was run. Any advice? WHERE relkind = 'r' AND relpersistence != 't' So to confirm. Fix the query and do

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation with OID

2015-04-22 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 04/22/2015 11:40 AM, Steve Crawford wrote: This morning we got the following error from a daily script that produces a simple largest-table report: ERROR: could not open relation with OID 597597503 I reran the script and it completed without error. Our server is running 9.1.15 from PgDg Ubun

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation with OID

2015-04-22 Thread Andomar
This morning we got the following error from a daily script that produces a simple largest-table report: ERROR: could not open relation with OID 597597503 From a bit of Googling, it seems that Postgres was unable to open the physical file that contains the relation. Is it possible that there w

[GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation with OID

2015-04-22 Thread Steve Crawford
This morning we got the following error from a daily script that produces a simple largest-table report: ERROR: could not open relation with OID 597597503 I reran the script and it completed without error. Our server is running 9.1.15 from PgDg Ubuntu repos and the query run by the script is:

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation base/2757655/6930168: No such file or directory -- during warm standby setup

2011-01-02 Thread bricklen
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > I think you're missing the point here: there is something about your > standby setup procedure that is causing you to get an inconsistent set > of row states. For the sake of the archives, the problem turned out to be due to impatience. We were

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation base/2757655/6930168: No such file or directory -- during warm standby setup

2010-12-31 Thread Tom Lane
bricklen writes: > On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 1:53 PM, bricklen wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >>> You did something on the source DB that rewrote the table with a new >>> relfilenode (possibly CLUSTER or some form of ALTER TABLE; plain VACUUM >>> or ANALYZE wouldn't do

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation base/2757655/6930168: No such file or directory -- during warm standby setup

2010-12-31 Thread Jon Nelson
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 1:13 PM, bricklen wrote: > On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 1:53 PM, bricklen wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >>> >>> The difference in ctid, and the values of xmin and relfrozenxid, >>> seems to confirm my suspicion that this wasn't just random cosmic

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation base/2757655/6930168: No such file or directory -- during warm standby setup

2010-12-31 Thread bricklen
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 1:53 PM, bricklen wrote: > On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >> >> The difference in ctid, and the values of xmin and relfrozenxid, >> seems to confirm my suspicion that this wasn't just random cosmic rays. >> You did something on the source DB that rewrote

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation base/2757655/6930168: No such file or directory -- during warm standby setup

2010-12-29 Thread bricklen
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > bricklen writes: >> On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Tom Lane wrote: >>> What can you tell us about what was happening on the source DB while >>> the backup was being taken? > >> The source db has between 1000 and 3000 transactions/s, so is >>

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation base/2757655/6930168: No such file or directory -- during warm standby setup

2010-12-29 Thread Tom Lane
bricklen writes: > On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Tom Lane wrote: >> What can you tell us about what was happening on the source DB while >> the backup was being taken? > The source db has between 1000 and 3000 transactions/s, so is > reasonably volatile. The two tables in question are not ac

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation base/2757655/6930168: No such file or directory -- during warm standby setup

2010-12-29 Thread bricklen
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > bricklen writes: >> After setting up a warm standby >> (pg_start_backup/rsync/pg_stop_backup), and promoting to master, we >> encountered an error in the middle of an analyze of the new standby >> db. (the standby server is a fresh server) >> [

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation base/2757655/6930168: No such file or directory -- during warm standby setup

2010-12-29 Thread Tom Lane
bricklen writes: > After setting up a warm standby > (pg_start_backup/rsync/pg_stop_backup), and promoting to master, we > encountered an error in the middle of an analyze of the new standby > db. (the standby server is a fresh server) > [ relfilenode doesn't match on source and standby ] What ca

[GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation base/2757655/6930168: No such file or directory -- during warm standby setup

2010-12-29 Thread bricklen
Hi all, After setting up a warm standby (pg_start_backup/rsync/pg_stop_backup), and promoting to master, we encountered an error in the middle of an analyze of the new standby db. (the standby server is a fresh server) Source db: PostgreSQL 8.4.2 Standby db: PostgreSQL 8.4.6 ... INFO: analyzing

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation with OID 59132

2009-12-10 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 4:53 AM, Postgre Novice wrote: > Hello , > > after google search i havent found any solution or clue for this specific > case: > > Background: > Postgresql: 8.3.0 You're missing over a year of updates, and there may well be a bug in that version that's since been fixed. Do

Re: Fw: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation with OID 59132

2009-12-10 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Thursday 10 December 2009 9:17:47 am Postgre Novice wrote: > > At a guess I am thinking it has to do with this: > > "All constraints on all partitions of the master table are examined during > constraint exclusion, so large numbers of partitions are likely to increase > query planning time cons

Re: Fw: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation with OID 59132

2009-12-10 Thread Postgre Novice
From: Adrian Klaver To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Cc: Postgre Novice Sent: Thu, December 10, 2009 10:23:21 PM Subject: Re: Fw: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation with OID 59132 On Wednesday 09 December 2009 11:34:39 pm Postgre Novice wrote: >

Re: Fw: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation with OID 59132

2009-12-10 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Wednesday 09 December 2009 11:34:39 pm Postgre Novice wrote: > Can someone please share some light on this > > > > - Forwarded Message > From: Postgre Novice > To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org > Sent: Wed, December 9, 2009 5:23:18 PM > Subject: [GENE

Fw: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation with OID 59132

2009-12-09 Thread Postgre Novice
Can someone please share some light on this - Forwarded Message From: Postgre Novice To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Sent: Wed, December 9, 2009 5:23:18 PM Subject: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation with OID 59132 Hello , after google search i havent found any

[GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation with OID 59132

2009-12-09 Thread Postgre Novice
Hello , after google search i havent found any solution or clue for this specific case: Background: Postgresql: 8.3.0 select version(); version PostgreSQL 8.3.

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation with OID 49152

2008-07-21 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 6:07 PM, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Scott Marlowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> OK, I'm getting the above error on one of my fairly new 8.3 production >> databases. It happens when I run a query to see the size of my >> tables. > >> SELECT pg_relation_size(c.r

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation with OID 49152

2008-07-21 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Scott Marlowe escribió: > OK, I'm getting the above error on one of my fairly new 8.3 production > databases. It happens when I run a query to see the size of my > tables. > > SELECT pg_relation_size(c.relfilenode), n.nspname AS schemaname, > c.relname AS tablename, pg_get_userbyid(c.relowner) AS

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation with OID 49152

2008-07-21 Thread Tom Lane
"Scott Marlowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OK, I'm getting the above error on one of my fairly new 8.3 production > databases. It happens when I run a query to see the size of my > tables. > SELECT pg_relation_size(c.relfilenode), Pretty sure that should be c.oid. reg

[GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation with OID 49152

2008-07-21 Thread Scott Marlowe
OK, I'm getting the above error on one of my fairly new 8.3 production databases. It happens when I run a query to see the size of my tables. SELECT pg_relation_size(c.relfilenode), n.nspname AS schemaname, c.relname AS tablename, pg_get_userbyid(c.relowner) AS tableowner, t.spcname AS tablespace

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation with OID 2836

2008-06-27 Thread Rodrigo Gonzalez
Tom Lane wrote: > Rodrigo Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> pg_dump is working fine now, the problem appear with the pg_buffercache >> query...without it I dont notice anything wrong with DBbut of course >> there is something wrong. Can be pg_buffercache the problem? > > Oh ... looking a

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation with OID 2836

2008-06-27 Thread Tom Lane
Rodrigo Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > pg_dump is working fine now, the problem appear with the pg_buffercache > query...without it I dont notice anything wrong with DBbut of course > there is something wrong. Can be pg_buffercache the problem? Oh ... looking again at your latest probl

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation with OID 2836

2008-06-27 Thread Tom Lane
Rodrigo Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> When you say "restored from backup", are you talking about a pg_dump >> backup, or what? > yes, a pg_dump backup. There must be something mighty odd in that backup. Would you be willing to send it to me off-list, so I can try to r

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation with OID 2836

2008-06-27 Thread Rodrigo Gonzalez
Alban Hertroys wrote: > On Jun 26, 2008, at 5:41 AM, Rodrigo Gonzalez wrote: > >> Tom Lane wrote: >>> Rodrigo Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Craig Ringer wrote: > What platform are you using? >>> It's running under CentOS 4.4 using ext3, no RAID or LVM. Server is quad xeon

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation with OID 2836

2008-06-27 Thread Rodrigo Gonzalez
Tom Lane wrote: > Rodrigo Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Tom Lane wrote: >>> No, it's clear that things are already broken before pg_dump started. >>> You need to show us how to get to this state from a fresh database. > >> Interestinga new problem maybe, or maybe the same one >>

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation with OID 2836

2008-06-26 Thread Tom Lane
Rodrigo Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> No, it's clear that things are already broken before pg_dump started. >> You need to show us how to get to this state from a fresh database. > Interestinga new problem maybe, or maybe the same one > ... > ERROR: relation "p

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation with OID 2836

2008-06-26 Thread Alban Hertroys
On Jun 26, 2008, at 5:41 AM, Rodrigo Gonzalez wrote: Tom Lane wrote: Rodrigo Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Craig Ringer wrote: What platform are you using? It's running under CentOS 4.4 using ext3, no RAID or LVM. Server is quad xeon 64 bits 3 GHz Ugh, I'd have liked to think RHEL

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation with OID 2836

2008-06-25 Thread Rodrigo Gonzalez
Tom Lane wrote: > Rodrigo Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Dont know exactly what you mean, if you are talking about the moment >> that I receive the error... > > No, it's clear that things are already broken before pg_dump started. > You need to show us how to get to this state from a fres

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation with OID 2836

2008-06-25 Thread Tom Lane
Rodrigo Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dont know exactly what you mean, if you are talking about the moment > that I receive the error... No, it's clear that things are already broken before pg_dump started. You need to show us how to get to this state from a fresh database.

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation with OID 2836

2008-06-25 Thread Rodrigo Gonzalez
Tom Lane wrote: > Rodrigo Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Basically I should reinstall again PG with the same configuration and >> wait 1 night. Any log you need or want? anything to do besides doing the >> same I did? > > Umm ... if I reinstall PG and wait one night, I'm quite sure that >

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation with OID 2836

2008-06-25 Thread Tom Lane
Rodrigo Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Basically I should reinstall again PG with the same configuration and > wait 1 night. Any log you need or want? anything to do besides doing the > same I did? Umm ... if I reinstall PG and wait one night, I'm quite sure that nothing much will happen.

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation with OID 2836

2008-06-25 Thread Rodrigo Gonzalez
Tom Lane wrote: > Rodrigo Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Craig Ringer wrote: >>> What platform are you using? > >> It's running under CentOS 4.4 using ext3, no RAID or LVM. >> Server is quad xeon 64 bits 3 GHz > > Ugh, I'd have liked to think RHEL4/Centos4 would be more reliable than > t

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation with OID 2836

2008-06-25 Thread Rodrigo Gonzalez
Tom Lane wrote: > Rodrigo Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Tom Lane wrote: >>> Did you update anything else at the same time? > >> No, just postgres was updated > > Well, that does start to sound like it could be a PG bug; but no one > else is reporting anything like it. Can you put toget

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation with OID 2836

2008-06-25 Thread Rodrigo Gonzalez
Tom Lane wrote: > Rodrigo Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> It had been working with pgsql 8.1 and 8.2 for 2 years without problems. >> Suspicious is that problems started next day I've upgraded to 8.3. > > Did you update anything else at the same time? > > regards, to

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation with OID 2836

2008-06-25 Thread Tom Lane
Rodrigo Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Did you update anything else at the same time? > No, just postgres was updated Well, that does start to sound like it could be a PG bug; but no one else is reporting anything like it. Can you put together a self-contained test cas

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation with OID 2836

2008-06-25 Thread Tom Lane
Rodrigo Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It had been working with pgsql 8.1 and 8.2 for 2 years without problems. > Suspicious is that problems started next day I've upgraded to 8.3. Did you update anything else at the same time? regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation with OID 2836

2008-06-25 Thread Tom Lane
Rodrigo Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Craig Ringer wrote: >> What platform are you using? > It's running under CentOS 4.4 using ext3, no RAID or LVM. > Server is quad xeon 64 bits 3 GHz Ugh, I'd have liked to think RHEL4/Centos4 would be more reliable than that :-(. Still, you might hav

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation with OID 2836

2008-06-25 Thread Rodrigo Gonzalez
Tom Lane wrote: > Rodrigo Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> PgSQL is returning that error when I open pgdmin and when I run some >> queries related to pg_buffercache. Also pg_dump cannot dump the DB. >> PgSQL version is 8.3.3 and happened one day after loading the DB there. > > That raises a

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation with OID 2836

2008-06-25 Thread Rodrigo Gonzalez
Craig Ringer wrote: > Rodrigo Gonzalez wrote: >> PgSQL is returning that error when I open pgdmin and when I run some >> queries related to pg_buffercache. Also pg_dump cannot dump the DB. >> >> PgSQL version is 8.3.3 and happened one day after loading the DB there. > > What platform are you using

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation with OID 2836

2008-06-25 Thread Tom Lane
Rodrigo Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > PgSQL is returning that error when I open pgdmin and when I run some > queries related to pg_buffercache. Also pg_dump cannot dump the DB. > PgSQL version is 8.3.3 and happened one day after loading the DB there. That raises a lot of questions about t

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation with OID 2836

2008-06-25 Thread Craig Ringer
Rodrigo Gonzalez wrote: > PgSQL is returning that error when I open pgdmin and when I run some > queries related to pg_buffercache. Also pg_dump cannot dump the DB. > > PgSQL version is 8.3.3 and happened one day after loading the DB there. What platform are you using? If Windows: - Which vers

[GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation with OID 2836

2008-06-25 Thread Rodrigo Gonzalez
PgSQL is returning that error when I open pgdmin and when I run some queries related to pg_buffercache. Also pg_dump cannot dump the DB. PgSQL version is 8.3.3 and happened one day after loading the DB there. Anything that can be done? or I have to restore a backup and put current data again? Th

Re: [GENERAL] Error: Could not open relation...

2008-05-23 Thread Magnus Hagander
Howard Cole wrote: > Adrian Klaver wrote: > > On Friday 23 May 2008 6:02 am, Howard Cole wrote: > > > >> Howard Cole wrote: > >> > Looks like someone or something changed the permissions on the > postgresql folders or files. > > Sincerely, > > Joshua D. Drake >

Re: [GENERAL] Error: Could not open relation...

2008-05-23 Thread Gregory Stark
"Howard Cole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are there likely to be serious integrety implications if Postgres failed to > access/write to this table for whatever reason, or would the transaction be > rolled back. The command would get an error and the transaction rolled back. I would be more conc

Re: [GENERAL] Error: Could not open relation...

2008-05-23 Thread Howard Cole
Adrian Klaver wrote: On Friday 23 May 2008 6:02 am, Howard Cole wrote: Howard Cole wrote: Looks like someone or something changed the permissions on the postgresql folders or files. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake I've had a look at this file, and postgres has "Full Control". How

Re: [GENERAL] Error: Could not open relation...

2008-05-23 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Friday 23 May 2008 6:02 am, Howard Cole wrote: > Howard Cole wrote: > >> Looks like someone or something changed the permissions on the > >> postgresql folders or files. > >> > >> Sincerely, > >> > >> Joshua D. Drake > > > > I've had a look at this file, and postgres has "Full Control". > > Howa

Re: [GENERAL] Error: Could not open relation...

2008-05-23 Thread Howard Cole
Howard Cole wrote: Looks like someone or something changed the permissions on the postgresql folders or files. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake I've had a look at this file, and postgres has "Full Control". Howard Further, the system works fine normally. The permissions error appears to be a

Re: [GENERAL] Error: Could not open relation...

2008-05-23 Thread Howard Cole
Looks like someone or something changed the permissions on the postgresql folders or files. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake I've had a look at this file, and postgres has "Full Control". Howard -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subsc

Re: [GENERAL] Error: Could not open relation...

2008-05-22 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 00:08 +0100, Howard Cole wrote: > Can anyone give me a hint how to trace the cause of this error message > in the error log: > > ERROR could not open relation 1663/20146/128342: Permission Denied > > Running 8.2.7 on W2K3. > Looks like someone or something changed the p

[GENERAL] Error: Could not open relation...

2008-05-22 Thread Howard Cole
Can anyone give me a hint how to trace the cause of this error message in the error log: ERROR could not open relation 1663/20146/128342: Permission Denied Running 8.2.7 on W2K3. Thanks. Howard Cole. www.selestial.com -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To m

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation

2008-05-07 Thread Zdenek Kotala
Gurjeet Singh napsal(a): The query should be select * from pg_class where relfienode = 58374 Yeah, of course. Thanks Zdenek -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-g

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation

2008-05-07 Thread Gurjeet Singh
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Zdenek Kotala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Q Master napsal(a): > > > I get this strange error > > > > Caused by: org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: ERROR: could not open > > relation 1663/53544/58374: No such file or directory > > > > How do I recover from it ? Vers

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation

2008-05-07 Thread Zdenek Kotala
Q Master napsal(a): I get this strange error Caused by: org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: ERROR: could not open relation 1663/53544/58374: No such file or directory How do I recover from it ? Version 8.2 on windows. I think I had an hardware issue in the past where my box rebooted few time

[GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation

2008-05-06 Thread Q Master
I get this strange error Caused by: org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: ERROR: could not open relation 1663/53544/58374: No such file or directory How do I recover from it ? Version 8.2 on windows. I think I had an hardware issue in the past where my box rebooted few times I assume this is du

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation with OID

2007-08-22 Thread Tom Lane
"Susy Ham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We are trying to perform a 'reindex database' and it will fail at > varying points with a message like: > ERROR: could not open relation with OID 587495058 >or > ERROR: could not open relation with OID 58

[GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation with OID

2007-08-22 Thread Susy Ham
We are trying to perform a 'reindex database' and it will fail at varying points with a message like: ERROR: could not open relation with OID 587495058 or ERROR: could not open relation with OID 587603875 When we queried pg_class we got no rows

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation

2005-07-15 Thread Thomas F. O'Connell
One final final question: my suspicion is no, but I just want to ask: this would not affect all inherited tables with bgwriter, would it, in scenarios where a persistent inherited table gets dropped while a parent table is being queried? Could this result in a similar scheduling conflict fo

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation

2005-07-14 Thread Thomas F. O'Connell
One other detail: pg_autovacuum is running on this system. I just noticed this from Tom's "Autovacuum loose ends" post from earlier today: "The code does not make a provision to ignore temporary tables. Although vacuum.c and analyze.c will disregard the request to touch such tables, it'd prob

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation

2005-07-14 Thread Thomas F. O'Connell
From this thread, these two bits about PostgreSQL stand out: "I have an old note to myself that persistent write errors could "clog" the bgwriter, because I was worried that after an error it would stupidly try to write the same buffer again instead of trying to make progress elsewhere. (CVS tip

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation

2005-07-14 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 04:08:48PM -0500, Thomas F. O'Connell wrote: > So my first instinct was to avoid use of temp tables in this scenario > altogether, but now I'm thinking all I might need to do is unhook the > temp tables from inheritance. > > But I just want to raise a basic reliability

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation

2005-07-14 Thread Tom Lane
"Thomas F. O'Connell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > does pg_autovacuum as currently written in contrib vacuum temp > tables, and, in 8.0, is this then able (however unlikely) to cause > the sort of error I encountered yesterday? No, and no, and still no for the integrated version. The isOthe

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation

2005-07-14 Thread Thomas F. O'Connell
So my first instinct was to avoid use of temp tables in this scenario altogether, but now I'm thinking all I might need to do is unhook the temp tables from inheritance. But I just want to raise a basic reliability issu raised in the nearby "Autovacuum loose ends" thread issue before I conc

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation

2005-07-14 Thread Thomas F. O'Connell
On Jul 14, 2005, at 12:51 PM, Tom Lane wrote: "Thomas F. O'Connell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Unfortunately, this is a system where the interloper is superuser (and, yes, changing this has been a TODO). But even so, I need help understanding how one backend could access the temp table of an

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation

2005-07-14 Thread Tom Lane
"Thomas F. O'Connell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Unfortunately, this is a system where the interloper is superuser > (and, yes, changing this has been a TODO). But even so, I need help > understanding how one backend could access the temp table of another. You'd have to do it pretty expli

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation

2005-07-14 Thread Thomas F. O'Connell
Sorry, I didn't have the evidence about the bgwriter before. It was based on conjecture on IRC last night and newly gathered evidence from this morning. Here's a list of current postgres processes on the box. postgres 1186 2.8 5.0 437812 417624 ? SJul13 22:37 postgres: writer p

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation

2005-07-14 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I suggested that bgwriter may be the culprit, mainly because the log > lines were not preceded by the log_line_prefix as the other lines in the > log. See an extract here: http://rafb.net/paste/results/awxFnY15.html Hmm, what are the logging configurat

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation

2005-07-14 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 10:49:56AM -0500, Thomas F. O'Connell wrote: > Does bgwriter operate on temp tables, and could there exist an edge > condition in which bgwriter might have scheduled a write to disk for > a file corresponding to a temp table that was removed by sudden > termination of

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation

2005-07-14 Thread Tom Lane
"Thomas F. O'Connell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Could this be related to temp tables? Possibly, given that the table doesn't seem to be there anymore. > Does bgwriter operate on temp tables, and could there exist an edge > condition in which bgwriter might have scheduled a write to disk for

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation

2005-07-14 Thread Thomas F. O'Connell
The oid in question does not correspond to a relfilenode, and oid2name -o 94144936 doesn't return anything when run against the database in question. Could this be related to temp tables? We use a lot of them in data imports, and this was a point of discussion on IRC. Having a limited und

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation

2005-07-14 Thread Tom Lane
"Thomas F. O'Connell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyway, if I do a lookup by oid for 94144936 in pg_class, I don't see > it. And, clearly, it's not in $PGDATA/base/32019395. You should be looking at relfilenode. See http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/storage.html and/or use oid2name to

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation

2005-07-13 Thread Thomas F. O'Connell
I'm developing a habit of being the most frequent replier to my own posts, but anyway: I discovered the meaning of 1663, which is the default tablespace oid.But I still need help with diagnosis and treatment... -- Thomas F. O'Connell Co-Founder, Information Architect Sitening, LLC Strategic Open S

[GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation

2005-07-13 Thread Thomas F. O'Connell
I have a production database where we just encountered the following error:ERROR:  could not open relation 1663/32019395/94144936: No such file or directory Here's the output of SELECT version():PostgreSQL 8.0.3 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC 2.95.4Here's uname -a:Linux 2.6.11.8 #8 SMP Tue