Thread: problems with 8.0 Rc4

    I've been trying to check that my current application working on
postgres 7.4 will work with 8.0.
I've not checked the application yet but I'm getting a few error messages,
I don't understand and are worring me slightly. I need to get 8.0 to work
because I'm keen to start using the new pitr feature in 8.0 as soon as it
goes stable.

The error messages run as follows

ERROR: tuple concurrently updated
STATEMENT: ANALYZE "public"."streetuniq"

and

ERROR: could not access status of trasaction 393311
DETAIL: could not read file "/database/db/pg_clog/0000" at offset 98304:
Success
STATEMENT: ANALYZE "public"."backedup"

and

ERROR: relation "people" TID 362/32: OID is invalid
STATEMENT: vacuum full verbose analyze;

    I'm running pg_autovacuum which caused the first two errors and
ran a vacuum full verbose analyze straght after loading the data. hence
the third message.

    I thought pg_autovaccum was going to be built into 8.0 or was that
only a rumor.

    I've also read though the pitr documentation and it seams
slightly complicated. I currently backup every 12 hours (3am and 3pm) with
a dump,
    So I'm thinking to get a complete pitr backup with full backup
every 12 hours, I need to take a copy of the data directory and store all
the logs from the start of the backup to the end of the next backup to
have a complete log of that period of time.
    I'm planning to store my backup on CD with a new set of CDs for
each backup period.
    Whats the basic principle to do this and how can I save on the
number of discs I need, My database is 2.8Gb on disk currently after a
fresh load from dump, the dump is 766Mb uncompressed.

Peter Childs

On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 15:40:07 +0000,
  Peter Childs <blue.dragon@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>
>     I thought pg_autovaccum was going to be built into 8.0 or was that
> only a rumor.

Due to some unfortunate things it was not ready by the beta cutoff, so it
is staying in contrib for the 8.0 release.

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Bruno Wolff III wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 15:40:07 +0000,
>   Peter Childs <blue.dragon@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >     I thought pg_autovaccum was going to be built into 8.0 or was that
> > only a rumor.
>
> Due to some unfortunate things it was not ready by the beta cutoff, so it
> is staying in contrib for the 8.0 release.
>
>

    Oh dear, so thats one feature that we will expect to see in 8.1!

    I've finnally worked out what was wrong and you're all going to
laugh. I had installed postgres 8.0 under a fresh install of Debian 8.0
testing, switched my drives to ext3 and started postgres up. Fine you
might all say,
    Well first I noticed a message in the log saying it had mounted
the drives at ext2 and then I got a few kernel panics, So I unmounted my
database drive and remounted it. and guess what the errors went away,
    So I upgraded the kernel to the one in Debian Unstable and now its
all fine.
    In short its the old bug in Debian that by the time Debian is
ready its actually out of date.

Peter Childs