Re: [GENERAL] postmaster deadlock while logging after syslogger exited

2017-11-16 Thread Tom Lane
Andres Freund writes: > It doesn't seem impossible to get into a situation where syslogger is > the source of the OOM. Just enabling a lot of logging in a workload with > many large query strings might do it. So making it less likely to be > killed might make the problem worse... Hm, so that's a

Re: [GENERAL] postmaster deadlock while logging after syslogger exited

2017-11-16 Thread Andres Freund
On November 16, 2017 7:06:23 PM PST, Tom Lane wrote: >Andres Freund writes: >> On 2017-11-16 21:39:49 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: >>> What might be worth thinking about is allowing the syslogger process >to >>> inherit the postmaster's OOM-kill-proofness setting, instead of >dropping >>> down to the

Re: [GENERAL] postmaster deadlock while logging after syslogger exited

2017-11-16 Thread Tom Lane
Andres Freund writes: > On 2017-11-16 21:39:49 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: >> What might be worth thinking about is allowing the syslogger process to >> inherit the postmaster's OOM-kill-proofness setting, instead of dropping >> down to the same vulnerability as the postmaster's other child processes.

Re: [GENERAL] postmaster deadlock while logging after syslogger exited

2017-11-16 Thread Andres Freund
On 2017-11-16 21:39:49 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > > We could work around a situation like that if we made postmaster use a > > *different* pipe as stderr than the one we're handing to normal > > backends. If postmaster created a new pipe and closed the read end > > whenever forking a syslogger, we sh

Re: [GENERAL] postmaster deadlock while logging after syslogger exited

2017-11-16 Thread Tom Lane
Andres Freund writes: > On 2017-11-06 15:35:03 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: >> David Pacheco writes: >>> I ran into what appears to be a deadlock in the logging subsystem. It >>> looks like what happened was that the syslogger process exited because it >>> ran out of memory. But before the postmaster

Re: [GENERAL] postmaster deadlock while logging after syslogger exited

2017-11-16 Thread Michael Paquier
On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 11:14 AM, Andres Freund wrote: > On 2017-11-17 11:09:56 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote: >> when redirection_done is switched to true because the first process >> generating a message to the syslogger pipe needs to open it first if >> not done yet? > > I can't follow. The sysl

Re: [GENERAL] postmaster deadlock while logging after syslogger exited

2017-11-16 Thread Andres Freund
On 2017-11-17 11:09:56 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote: > On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 10:50 AM, Andres Freund wrote: > > On 2017-11-06 15:35:03 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > >> David Pacheco writes: > >> > I ran into what appears to be a deadlock in the logging subsystem. It > >> > looks like what happened

Re: [GENERAL] postmaster deadlock while logging after syslogger exited

2017-11-16 Thread Michael Paquier
On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 10:50 AM, Andres Freund wrote: > On 2017-11-06 15:35:03 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: >> David Pacheco writes: >> > I ran into what appears to be a deadlock in the logging subsystem. It >> > looks like what happened was that the syslogger process exited because it >> > ran out o

Re: [GENERAL] postmaster deadlock while logging after syslogger exited

2017-11-16 Thread Andres Freund
On 2017-11-06 15:35:03 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > David Pacheco writes: > > I ran into what appears to be a deadlock in the logging subsystem. It > > looks like what happened was that the syslogger process exited because it > > ran out of memory. But before the postmaster got a chance to handle th

Re: [GENERAL] postmaster deadlock while logging after syslogger exited

2017-11-16 Thread David Pacheco
On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 12:35 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > David Pacheco writes: > > I ran into what appears to be a deadlock in the logging subsystem. It > > looks like what happened was that the syslogger process exited because it > > ran out of memory. But before the postmaster got a chance to hand

Re: [GENERAL] postmaster deadlock while logging after syslogger exited

2017-11-06 Thread David Pacheco
On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 12:35 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > David Pacheco writes: > > ... that process appears to have exited due to a fatal error > > (out of memory). (I know it exited because the process still exists in > the > > kernel -- it hasn't been reaped yet -- and I think it ran out of memory

Re: [GENERAL] postmaster deadlock while logging after syslogger exited

2017-11-06 Thread Tom Lane
David Pacheco writes: > I ran into what appears to be a deadlock in the logging subsystem. It > looks like what happened was that the syslogger process exited because it > ran out of memory. But before the postmaster got a chance to handle the > SIGCLD to restart it, it handled a SIGUSR1 to star

[GENERAL] postmaster deadlock while logging after syslogger exited

2017-11-06 Thread David Pacheco
Hello, I ran into what appears to be a deadlock in the logging subsystem. It looks like what happened was that the syslogger process exited because it ran out of memory. But before the postmaster got a chance to handle the SIGCLD to restart it, it handled a SIGUSR1 to start an autovacuum worker.

Re: [GENERAL] Postmaster taking 100% of the CPU

2009-10-26 Thread David Kerr
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 04:38:51PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: - David Kerr writes: - > Looks like it was a query that was running. once my developer killed it the CPU went back down. - > I'm a little surprised by that, the backend process for that developer wasn't taking up a lot of CPU, - > just th

Re: [GENERAL] Postmaster taking 100% of the CPU

2009-10-26 Thread Tom Lane
David Kerr writes: > Looks like it was a query that was running. once my developer killed it the > CPU went back down. > I'm a little surprised by that, the backend process for that developer wasn't > taking up a lot of CPU, > just the postmaster itself. The backtrace you showed was most defini

Re: [GENERAL] Postmaster taking 100% of the CPU

2009-10-26 Thread David Kerr
Looks like it was a query that was running. once my developer killed it the CPU went back down. I'm a little surprised by that, the backend process for that developer wasn't taking up a lot of CPU, just the postmaster itself. Any idea why that would be? Thanks Dave On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 1

Re: [GENERAL] Postmaster taking 100% of the CPU

2009-10-26 Thread Vick Khera
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 1:30 PM, David Kerr wrote: > Postmaster's been spinning at 99/100% for a few hours. > What does "select * from pg_stat_activity" show you? Look for your long(est) running query. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to yo

[GENERAL] Postmaster taking 100% of the CPU

2009-10-26 Thread David Kerr
Postmaster's been spinning at 99/100% for a few hours. trying to get an idea what would have caused it. I'm on PG 8.3.5 linux. Here's the gdb output (I'm not really all that gdb savvy, so if something else would let me know) 0x08281959 in textin () (gdb) bt #0 0x08281959 in textin () #1 0x08

Re: [GENERAL] postmaster never finishes starting up, silent to boot

2009-03-18 Thread Ray Stell
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 01:18:46AM -0700, Aaron Glenn wrote: > On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:27 PM, Scott Marlowe > wrote: > start run it's course? for a 35GB+ database how long should I wait? is > there no way to log the status of what the postgres daemon is actually > doing while I wait? what's th

Re: [GENERAL] postmaster never finishes starting up, silent to boot

2009-03-18 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 2:18 AM, Aaron Glenn wrote: > On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:27 PM, Scott Marlowe > wrote: >> Hard to say with what you've told us so far. > > what more should I post/need? I was suspecting that as well as I've Remember that mentiion of vmstat and top I made in my last post?

Re: [GENERAL] postmaster never finishes starting up, silent to boot

2009-03-18 Thread Aaron Glenn
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:27 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote: > Hard to say with what you've told us so far. what more should I post/need? I was suspecting that as well as I've never had postgres be silent and not work -- I've also never let a db fill its disk and get f'ed like this. should I just let t

Re: [GENERAL] postmaster never finishes starting up, silent to boot

2009-03-17 Thread Scott Marlowe
On top of what the other poster said, I'm wondering if you're not getting any kind of "postmaster not cleanly shutdown, recovery initiated or something like that when you first start it up. You don't tend to see a lot of messages after that until recovery is completed. What does top and / or vmst

Re: [GENERAL] postmaster never finishes starting up, silent to boot

2009-03-17 Thread Greg Smith
On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Aaron Glenn wrote: Despite configuring postgresql.conf for excessive 'verboseness' nothing gets outputted to syslog or the --log specified file. You shouldn't trust those destinations for getting really unusual errors starting the server. Change your log_destination temp

[GENERAL] postmaster never finishes starting up, silent to boot

2009-03-17 Thread Aaron Glenn
Greetings, I've gotten myself in a pickle and had a postgresql (8.2) instance fill its disk completely and shutdown itself down. I've moved the entire data directory to a new, larger slice however postmaster never finishes "starting". Despite configuring postgresql.conf for excessive 'verboseness'

Re: [GENERAL] postmaster hangs on delete from

2009-03-13 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Friday 13 March 2009, e...@devdep.com wrote: > Hi, > > I have a serious issue with delete from. > > When I do something like: > > "delete from CALC_INVOICE_DATA where PERIOD_END>='2011-01-01'" > > the postmaster takes 100% CPU and then nothing happens. > Some possibilities: 1) If it's using 10

[GENERAL] postmaster hangs on delete from

2009-03-13 Thread emsa
Hi, I have a serious issue with delete from. When I do something like: "delete from CALC_INVOICE_DATA where PERIOD_END>='2011-01-01'" the postmaster takes 100% CPU and then nothing happens. Doing any type of select on the same table works just fine, I have tried various forms of vacuums and r

Re: [GENERAL] postmaster LISTENing on UDP port 32938

2009-02-11 Thread Tom Lane
Richard Huxton writes: > rhubbell wrote: >> Found this on a recent install. I don't find anything documented on why >> postmaster is LISTENing on this port. What's the purpose? >> If it's not required how to disable? > It should just be localhost and I believe it's the stats collector > talking

Re: [GENERAL] postmaster LISTENing on UDP port 32938

2009-02-11 Thread Richard Huxton
rhubbell wrote: > Found this on a recent install. I don't find anything documented on why > postmaster is LISTENing on this port. What's the purpose? > If it's not required how to disable? It should just be localhost and I believe it's the stats collector talking to the rest of the system. --

[GENERAL] postmaster LISTENing on UDP port 32938

2009-02-11 Thread rhubbell
Found this on a recent install. I don't find anything documented on why postmaster is LISTENing on this port. What's the purpose? If it's not required how to disable? -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql

[GENERAL] Postmaster exit code 128 on Windows 2003 Server

2008-10-02 Thread Roberto Mariano
Hi, I am running Postgresql 8.3.0 in a Windows 2003 Server (64bit). Database is being replicated with Slony-I. The main application was developed in php 5.2 and uses the php standard pgsql.dll connector to database. There are a few client-server processes that also uses the database. Everythin

Re: [GENERAL] postmaster logfile

2007-12-03 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Gauthier, Dave escribió: > Well, I can start the server with > > postmaster -D /myplace/db > > ... and then... > ^z > bg > > ... to get to the prompt. But each/every time a message from the > postmaster gets logged, it goes to stdout of the current window. I want > it to go to a logfil

Re: [GENERAL] postmaster logfile

2007-12-03 Thread Gauthier, Dave
Monday, December 03, 2007 4:13 PM To: Gauthier, Dave Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] postmaster logfile On Dec 3, 2007 2:35 PM, Gauthier, Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What's a good way to start the postmaster, send the log info to a logfile >

Re: [GENERAL] postmaster logfile

2007-12-03 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Dec 3, 2007 2:35 PM, Gauthier, Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What's a good way to start the postmaster, send the log info to a logfile > somewhere, and return the linux prompt? Use whatever startup script comes with the pacakge for your OS. I.e. in redhat or suse you should have a postgr

[GENERAL] postmaster logfile

2007-12-03 Thread Gauthier, Dave
What's a good way to start the postmaster, send the log info to a logfile somewhere, and return the linux prompt? v8.2.0 on suse64 Thanks -dave

[GENERAL] Postmaster does not shut down

2007-08-17 Thread Jeff Amiel
A 'bad' thing happened yesterday. Postgresql 8.1.X FreeBSD 6.0 At some point in the day, ran out of space on the root filesystem. (db is elsewhere) Took about 10 minutes to clear enough space to make processes stop freaking out and to slow my heart-rate down to below 200 beats per minute. Everyt

Re: [GENERAL] Postmaster processes taking all the CPU

2007-06-15 Thread MC Moisei
ROTECTED]; pgsql-general@postgresql.org> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Postmaster processes taking all the CPU> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > I promised that I will get back to the group with the reason. Well, of > > course was a query :). I do use a search engine file system >

Re: [GENERAL] Postmaster processes taking all the CPU

2007-06-15 Thread PFC
I promised that I will get back to the group with the reason. Well, of course was a query :). I do use a search engine file system based(lucene) that will take any desired entity saved into the database and find the primary keys and then do a select * from entity where id is in (:ids)If I

Re: [GENERAL] Postmaster processes taking all the CPU

2007-06-15 Thread MC Moisei
w what you think.MCPs.I heard people complaining about my posting format. I use the hotmail web interface and the way they send the message is beyond my control ;-|> Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 18:13:02 -0400> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Postma

Re: [GENERAL] Postmaster processes taking all the CPU

2007-06-11 Thread Alban Hertroys
times more traffic without problems.Hope this provide more insight.MC> Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 16:35:40 -0400> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Postmaster processes taking all the CPU> > On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 03:20:28PM -0500, MC M

Re: [GENERAL] Postmaster processes taking all the CPU

2007-06-08 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 05:08:26PM -0500, MC Moisei wrote: > Yes all the connection are coming from within the box so no network > latency.Well, isn't the swap can be because too many process > postmaster are requiring more memory. But why are they requring more memory? Do you maybe have (e.g.)

Re: [GENERAL] Postmaster processes taking all the CPU

2007-06-08 Thread MC Moisei
l@postgresql.org> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Postmaster processes taking all the CPU> > First, your mail is coming through really garbled. Maybe you need to> add some linebreaks or something? Anyway> > On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 03:58:40PM -0500, MC Moisei wrote:> > > > I

Re: [GENERAL] Postmaster processes taking all the CPU

2007-06-08 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 05:11:44PM -0400, Ericson Smith wrote: > > Also, if you're updating that table frequently, lots of dead tuples > will remain in there if you don't do a VACUUM FULL regularly. No, they won't. No well-tuned postgres installation has needed VACUUM FULL in a long time. VACUU

Re: [GENERAL] Postmaster processes taking all the CPU

2007-06-08 Thread Marc Mamin
Marc From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of MC Moisei Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 11:11 PM To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Postmaster processes taking all the CPU I did that remotely, thru the psqladmin. How do I do it from tha

Re: [GENERAL] Postmaster processes taking all the CPU

2007-06-08 Thread Andrew Sullivan
First, your mail is coming through really garbled. Maybe you need to add some linebreaks or something? Anyway On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 03:58:40PM -0500, MC Moisei wrote: > > I'm not sure I understand the question. What else runs on it ?I > have an Apache that fronts a Tomcat (Java Enterprise App

Re: [GENERAL] Postmaster processes taking all the CPU

2007-06-08 Thread Ericson Smith
problems. Hope this provide more insight. MC > Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 16:35:40 -0400 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Postmaster processes taking all the CPU > > On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 03:20:28PM -0500, MC Moisei wrote: >

Re: [GENERAL] Postmaster processes taking all the CPU

2007-06-08 Thread MC Moisei
I did that remotely, thru the psqladmin. How do I do it from that box ?> Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 16:41:57 -0400> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Postmaster processes taking all the CPU> CC: pgsql-general@postgresql.org> > Have you done a full vacuum and not jus

Re: [GENERAL] Postmaster processes taking all the CPU

2007-06-08 Thread MC Moisei
n 2007 16:35:40 -0400> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Postmaster processes taking all the CPU> > On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 03:20:28PM -0500, MC Moisei wrote:> > > > pack of postmaster(4-22) processes ran by postgres user a

Re: [GENERAL] Postmaster processes taking all the CPU

2007-06-08 Thread Ericson Smith
Have you done a full vacuum and not just a reqular vacuum? - Ericson Smith Developer http://www.funadvice.com On 6/8/07, Andrew Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 03:20:28PM -0500, MC Moisei wrote: > > pack of postmaster(4-22) processes ran by postgres user are taking >

Re: [GENERAL] Postmaster processes taking all the CPU

2007-06-08 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 03:20:28PM -0500, MC Moisei wrote: > > pack of postmaster(4-22) processes ran by postgres user are taking > over almost all the CPU. What else is the box doing? If it doesn't have any other work to do, why shouldn't postgres use the CPU time? (This is a way of saying, "

Re: [GENERAL] Postmaster processes taking all the CPU

2007-06-08 Thread MC Moisei
Anyone ?From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [GENERAL] Postmaster processes taking all the CPUDate: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 13:23:00 -0500 Hi,I have this server that I use as db server. It's decent box Ubuntu, 2GB, AMD Barton 2.8Gb L2 2Mb. DB version is 7.4.7 - that version was the

[GENERAL] Postmaster processes taking all the CPU

2007-06-08 Thread MC Moisei
Hi,I have this server that I use as db database. It's decent box Ubuntu, 2GB, AMD Barton 2.8Gb L2 2Mb. DB version is 7.4.7 - that version was the only one available at that time. I have it for about 2 years in similar configuration. Lately I've notices that a pack of postmaster(4-22) process

Re: [GENERAL] postmaster disconnects after heavy load inserts from plperlu -> waht to do?

2007-01-18 Thread Christian Maier
Oh Sorry yes of corse. No Error Msg just a ":" sign and disconnectet (I use pgadmin3 for this) My develop postgres is on 8.2 on a windows machine. And thanks for the hint with the log, I found a related Bug http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2006-12/msg00163.php After an update of my Inst

Re: [GENERAL] postmaster disconnects after heavy load inserts from plperlu -> waht to do?

2007-01-16 Thread Tom Lane
"Christian Maier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have written a function to load yahoo quote data. abut after parsing > the inserts will overload the server and disconnects. You'll need to be a lot more specific than that. What error messages do you see exactly? What shows up in the postmaster

[GENERAL] postmaster disconnects after heavy load inserts from plperlu -> waht to do?

2007-01-16 Thread Christian Maier
Hello! I have written a function to load yahoo quote data. abut after parsing the inserts will overload the server and disconnects. What sould I do to avound this? THX Christian Maier PS Here the function: CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION get_yahoo(VARCHAR(20), BIGINT, VARCHAR(3)) RETURNS INTEGER AS

Re: [GENERAL] postmaster slowing down

2006-11-06 Thread Richard Huxton
surabhi.ahuja wrote: Answer to Question 1: I forgot to mention this: before i start running this program (refer to the mail below) I clean up (rm -rf) and create the data directory (PGDATA, by doing initdb) then i create the 4 tables (stored procedures etc) and then run the program Please see t

Re: [GENERAL] postmaster slowing down

2006-11-06 Thread surabhi.ahuja
Title: Re: [GENERAL] postmaster slowing down Answer to Question 1:   I forgot to mention this: before i start running this program (refer to the mail below)  I clean up (rm -rf) and create the data directory (PGDATA, by doing initdb) then i create the 4 tables (stored procedures etc

Re: [GENERAL] postmaster slowing down

2006-11-06 Thread Richard Huxton
surabhi.ahuja wrote: I am using postgres 8.0.0 In my program I have a single connection to a database. in side this connection i do the following 1. begin transaction 2. insert rows to table/s. (max number of tables = 4) 3. commit transaction the above 3 steps take place around 800, 000 time

[GENERAL] postmaster slowing down

2006-11-06 Thread surabhi.ahuja
Title: Re: [GENERAL] upgrade to 8.0.9 I am using postgres 8.0.0 In my program I have a single connection to a database. in side this connection i do the following   1. begin transaction 2. insert rows to table/s. (max number of tables = 4) 3. commit transaction   the above 3 steps take pl

Re: [GENERAL] postmaster: StreamConnection: accept: No such device

2006-07-18 Thread Reid Thompson
Larry Rosenman wrote: Reid Thompson wrote: Using a legacy installation ( 7.2.3 ). Occasionally the system will reach a state where attempted psql connection attempts fail, with the following error in the postgresql log: postmaster: StreamConnection: accept: No such device or address Will als

Re: [GENERAL] postmaster: StreamConnection: accept: No such device or address

2006-07-18 Thread Larry Rosenman
Reid Thompson wrote: > Using a legacy installation ( 7.2.3 ). > Occasionally the system will reach a state where attempted psql > connection attempts fail, with the following error in the postgresql > log: > postmaster: StreamConnection: accept: No such device or address > > Will also occasionally

[GENERAL] postmaster: StreamConnection: accept: No such device or address

2006-07-18 Thread Reid Thompson
Using a legacy installation ( 7.2.3 ). Occasionally the system will reach a state where attempted psql connection attempts fail, with the following error in the postgresql log: postmaster: StreamConnection: accept: No such device or address Will also occasionally get "no connection to server" erro

Re: [GENERAL] Postmaster is starting but shutting when trying to connect (Windows)

2006-07-08 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Magnus Hagander wrote on 08.07.2006 06:21: This looks exactly like the issues we've seen with broken antivirus or personal firewall software. Make sure you don't have any such installed (actualy installed, not just enabled), and if you do try to uninstall them. If you don't, but had before, check

Re: [GENERAL] Postmaster is starting but shutting when trying to connect (Windows)

2006-07-07 Thread Magnus Hagander
> Hello, > > i have a PostgreSQL (8.1) installation for testing purposes > which was running fine for several months now (Windows XP). I > was working with it yesterday, and today after booting my > computer and restarting the service (I'm starting the service > manually, because I don't need

Re: [GENERAL] Postmaster is starting but shutting when trying to connect (Windows)

2006-07-07 Thread Thomas Kellerer
On 07.07.2006 09:20 Thomas Kellerer wrote: Hello, i have a PostgreSQL (8.1) installation for testing purposes which was running fine for several months now (Windows XP). I was working with it yesterday, and today after booting my computer and restarting the service (I'm starting the service m

[GENERAL] Postmaster is starting but shutting when trying to connect (Windows)

2006-07-07 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Hello, i have a PostgreSQL (8.1) installation for testing purposes which was running fine for several months now (Windows XP). I was working with it yesterday, and today after booting my computer and restarting the service (I'm starting the service manually, because I don't need the server ru

Re: [GENERAL] Postmaster shuts down after rebuilding database via psql

2006-06-02 Thread Tom Lane
"Averbukh Stella" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > After database was recreated, I do the same ps command but the output is > completely different. The main postmaster process is gone and there are > couple of subprocesses that are still hanging there. Crashes of the main postmaster process are pret

[GENERAL] Postmaster shuts down after rebuilding database via psql

2006-06-02 Thread Averbukh Stella
Title: Postmaster shuts down after rebuilding database via psql Hello, I experience following problem.  I have postgreSQL installed on sparc10.  During the day, I have to drop and create 100+ tables several times per day.  After I do it in psql, quit it and run my application I get followin

Re: [GENERAL] Postmaster crashes after upgrade to 8.1.4!

2006-05-25 Thread CG
Okay, there was no core dump to be found. I had to revert back to 8.1.3 which seems to be running fine. I am /extremely/ thankful that there was no data corruption. I took a 24 hour old dumpfile of the database it was crashing on and I restored it to a similar AMD64 box (SunFire x2100 instead of

Re: [GENERAL] Postmaster crashes after upgrade to 8.1.4!

2006-05-25 Thread Bill Moran
CG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I didn't find a core dump. > > Perhaps I'm looking in the wrong spot or for the wrong file. The file should > be > called "core.32140", correct? ... I did a "find / -name core*" ... that found > nothing useful. find / -name '*core*' would be more reliable. Free

Re: [GENERAL] Postmaster crashes after upgrade to 8.1.4!

2006-05-25 Thread CG
I didn't find a core dump. Perhaps I'm looking in the wrong spot or for the wrong file. The file should be called "core.32140", correct? ... I did a "find / -name core*" ... that found nothing useful. --- Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > CG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 2006-05-25 08:3

Re: [GENERAL] Postmaster crashes after upgrade to 8.1.4!

2006-05-25 Thread Tom Lane
CG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2006-05-25 08:30:50.076 EDT LOG: server process (PID 32140) was terminated > by signal 11 That should be leaving a core dump file (if not, restart the postmaster under "ulimit -c unlimited"). Get a stack trace with gdb to get some more info about what's going o

[GENERAL] Postmaster crashes after upgrade to 8.1.4!

2006-05-25 Thread CG
Upgrading from 8.1.3 to 8.1.4, I compiled with the same configure flags, installed to a separate directory, shut down 8.1.3, copied the "data" directory over to the new 8.1.4 directory (cp -Rp), set my symlinks so that /usr/local/pgsql points to the new 8.1.4 directory, and fired it up. I ran some

Re: [GENERAL] Postmaster cannot start

2006-05-16 Thread Chun Yit\(Chronos\)
some doubt on my mind. Regards Beh - Original Message - From: "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Chun Yit(Chronos)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 1:03 PM Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Postmaster cannot start "Chun Yit\(Chr

Re: [GENERAL] Postmaster cannot start

2006-05-15 Thread Qingqing Zhou
""Chun Yit(Chronos)"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > postmaster give me error every time i try to start it > LOG: redo starts at A/46315F50 > PANIC: btree_delete_page_redo: uninitialized right sibling > So the last resort I can think of is to use pg_resetxlog to pass the startup failure -- but no

Re: [GENERAL] Postmaster cannot start

2006-05-15 Thread Tom Lane
"Chun Yit\(Chronos\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > PANIC: btree_delete_page_redo: uninitialized right sibling > LOG: startup process (PID 5043) was terminated by signal 6 > LOG: aborting startup due to startup process failure That's pretty ugly :-(. I think your only hope to get out of it is

Re: [GENERAL] Postmaster cannot start

2006-05-15 Thread Chun Yit\(Chronos\)
"Qingqing Zhou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: But not sure why it reports the following error message (which looks like a post-commit cleanup caused error): DEBUG: AbortCurrentTransaction PANIC: cannot abort transaction 14135438, it was already committed I think this is an artifact o

Re: [GENERAL] Postmaster cannot start

2006-05-15 Thread Chun Yit\(Chronos\)
4) how can i solve this problem? The base table pg_class should be ok(pg_class_oid_ind indicates both have the same cardinality). Try to reindex pg_class as the superuser. but not i not be able to reindex the table because i cannot start the postmaster. postmaster give me error every time

Re: [GENERAL] Postmaster cannot start

2006-05-15 Thread Tom Lane
"Qingqing Zhou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But not sure why it reports the following error > message (which looks like a post-commit cleanup caused error): > DEBUG: AbortCurrentTransaction > PANIC: cannot abort transaction 14135438, it was already committed I think this is an artifa

Re: [GENERAL] Postmaster cannot start

2006-05-15 Thread Qingqing Zhou
""Chun Yit(Chronos)"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > saw from the log file, it's possible that server crash during > vacuum process... > > Question : > 1) what happen to my database server? what the error meaning? > It looks like index "pg_class_relname_nsp_index" (which is an index on pg_class) is

[GENERAL] Postmaster cannot start

2006-05-15 Thread Chun Yit\(Chronos\)
Hi,   my postgresql version 7.4.5 cannot start until this morning, when i check the log file, it give me this error this is part of my log file   DEBUG:  vacuuming "pg_catalog.pg_class"DEBUG:  "pg_class": found 9823 removable, 1017 nonremovable row versions in 205 pagesDETAIL:  0 dead row ver

[GENERAL] Postmaster process on port 10000

2006-04-29 Thread vka
Hi! We have a problem with our postmaster process, which normaly runs on port 5432. >From time to time it spawns another process which listens on port 1 - >which also happens to be the port for our own server. I don't find any configuration option which could cause this behaviour. Does a

Re: [GENERAL] Postmaster process on port 10000

2006-04-28 Thread Tom Lane
Volker =?ISO-8859-1?Q?A=DFmann?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We have a problem with our postmaster process, which normaly runs on port > 5432. From time to time it spawns another process which listens on port > 1 - which also happens to be the port for our own server. I don't find > any confi

[GENERAL] Postmaster process on port 10000

2006-04-28 Thread Volker Aßmann
Hi! We have a problem with our postmaster process, which normaly runs on port 5432. From time to time it spawns another process which listens on port 1 - which also happens to be the port for our own server. I don't find any configuration option which could cause this behaviour. Does anyone h

Re: [GENERAL] postmaster services problem

2006-04-20 Thread Dave Page
  From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of liishyanSent: 19 April 2006 10:27To: pgsql-general@postgresql.orgSubject: [GENERAL] postmaster services problem Hi,   I’m having problem starting the postmaster service at my office’s server now

[GENERAL] postmaster services problem

2006-04-19 Thread liishyan
Hi,   I’m having problem starting the postmaster service at my office’s server now. Everything works fine for a year. But today morning, the I was unable to log into the database server.   When I tried to start the postmaster service, it says, “The service started and stopped. Some se

FW: [GENERAL] postmaster going down own its on

2006-04-10 Thread surabhi.ahuja
Title: RE: [GENERAL] postmaster going down own its on     hi, i noticed the script, and at places it says     received fast shutdown request<2006-04-10 10:25:05 IST%>LOG:  aborting any active transactions<2006-04-10 10:25:05 IST%idle>FATAL:  terminating connection due to a

Re: [GENERAL] postmaster going down own its on

2006-04-10 Thread surabhi.ahuja
Title: RE: [GENERAL] postmaster going down own its on   hi, i noticed the script, and at places it says     received fast shutdown request<2006-04-10 10:25:05 IST%>LOG:  aborting any active transactions<2006-04-10 10:25:05 IST%idle>FATAL:  terminating connection due to a

Re: [GENERAL] postmaster going down own its on

2006-04-08 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 08:02:04PM +0530, surabhi.ahuja wrote: > > the scenario in which the above took place was somewhat like this > we have a script to stop some of the processes running in the background. > > this script was run, and all the processes got stopped > > then another script will

Re: [GENERAL] postmaster going down own its on

2006-04-08 Thread surabhi.ahuja
Title: RE: [GENERAL] postmaster going down own its on the scenario in which the above took place was somewhat like this we have a script to stop some of the processes running in the background. this script was run, and all the processes got stopped then another script will start these

Re: [GENERAL] postmaster going down own its on

2006-04-07 Thread Tom Lane
Douglas McNaught <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Could be. The actual standard use of SIGTERM is to kill processes >> belonging to your terminal process group when you log out. > I thought that was SIGHUP? Doh. Not enough caffeine absorbed yet. As penance,

Re: [GENERAL] postmaster going down own its on

2006-04-07 Thread Douglas McNaught
Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Martijn van Oosterhout writes: >> On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 03:03:09PM +0100, Richard Huxton wrote: >>> What would be sending SIGTERM to a backend? > >> The only other thing I've ever heard of is some systems do a sigterm >> when you pass a quota limit? > > Co

Re: [GENERAL] postmaster going down own its on

2006-04-07 Thread Tom Lane
Martijn van Oosterhout writes: > On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 03:03:09PM +0100, Richard Huxton wrote: >> What would be sending SIGTERM to a backend? > The only other thing I've ever heard of is some systems do a sigterm > when you pass a quota limit? Could be. The actual standard use of SIGTERM is t

Re: [GENERAL] postmaster going down own its on

2006-04-07 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 03:03:09PM +0100, Richard Huxton wrote: > >I'm not sure it's that--the OOM killer uses SIGKILL which would take > >down the server before it could write that log entry. > > Hmm... (tests it) you're right. What would be sending SIGTERM to a backend? The only other thing I'v

Re: [GENERAL] postmaster going down own its on

2006-04-07 Thread Richard Huxton
Douglas McNaught wrote: Richard Huxton writes: surabhi.ahuja wrote: hi, is it possible for postmaster to go doen on its own? all what the logs say is FATAL: terminating connection dur to administrator's command. Someone or something is issuing a kill command. It couldn't be the infamous Linu

Re: [GENERAL] postmaster going down own its on

2006-04-07 Thread Douglas McNaught
Richard Huxton writes: > surabhi.ahuja wrote: >> hi, is it possible for postmaster to go doen on its own? >> all what the logs say is FATAL: terminating connection dur to >> administrator's command. > > Someone or something is issuing a kill command. It couldn't be the > infamous Linux out-of-mem

Re: [GENERAL] postmaster going down own its on

2006-04-07 Thread Richard Huxton
surabhi.ahuja wrote: hi, is it possible for postmaster to go doen on its own? all what the logs say is FATAL: terminating connection dur to administrator's command. Someone or something is issuing a kill command. It couldn't be the infamous Linux out-of-memory handler, could it? Check your sy

Re: [GENERAL] postmaster going down own its on

2006-04-07 Thread James Cradock
It's not normal. What's the installation? OS, applications connecting to the server, etc. On Apr 7, 2006, at 8:20 AM, surabhi.ahuja wrote:hi, is it possible for postmaster to go doen on its own?   all what the logs say is FATAL: terminating connection dur to administrator's command.   thanks, regar

[GENERAL] postmaster going down own its on

2006-04-07 Thread surabhi.ahuja
hi, is it possible for postmaster to go doen on its own?   all what the logs say is FATAL: terminating connection dur to administrator's command.   thanks, regards Surabhi

Re: [GENERAL] postmaster startup time

2006-02-01 Thread Tom Lane
"Steve Oualline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What's the longest time you'd expect between the execution of the=20 > postmaster command and being able to connec? Normal startup is a second or two on any modern hardware. If you have to recover from WAL, though, it could be very long. A rule of t

[GENERAL] postmaster startup time

2006-02-01 Thread Steve Oualline
Title: postmaster startup time What is the maximum time it takes for postmaster to start? Postmaster takes some time to open it's connections, process any WAL entries, and start accepting connections. What's the longest time you'd expect between the execution of the postmaster command

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