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

[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

[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

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] 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

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