Re: How different is AWS-RDS postgres? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Philip Semanchuk
Subject Re: How different is AWS-RDS postgres?
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Msg-id AEF79379-0271-4D58-9DB3-2E3EA23348AD@americanefficient.com
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In response to Re: How different is AWS-RDS postgres?  (Rob Sargent <robjsargent@gmail.com>)
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> On May 26, 2021, at 10:04 PM, Rob Sargent <robjsargent@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On May 26, 2021, at 4:37 PM, Ian Harding <harding.ian@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> There is an option to send the logs to cloudwatch which makes it less awful to look at them.
> I have that but precious little of interest there. Lots of autovac, a smattering of hints to increase wal size!?  I
haveyet to spot anything which corresponds to the “I/O failure” which the middle ware gets.  
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> I don’t have query logging on, but I do see reports from my psql session fat-fingering.
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> As to the logs UI, the search is pretty feeble; I don’t understand why there are four  channels of logs; the graphs
arewearing the same rose-coloured as the logs.   
> And 24 hours without a peep from AWS support. (I don’t call mailing me what I sent them “contact”.)
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> My guess right now is that the entire tomcat connection pool is in a single transaction? That’s the only way the
tablescould disappear.  I am making separate calls to JDBC getConnection () for each doPost.  

We used Aurora (AWS hosted Postgres) and I agree that Cloudwatch search is pretty limited. I wrote a Python script to
downloadcloudwatch logs to my laptop where I can use proper tools like grep to search them. It’s attached to this
email.It’s hacky but not too terrible. I hope you find it useful.  

Cheers
Philip



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