Thread: DB problem
<font face="Default Sans Serif, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><div><div><font face="Default Sans Serif,Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><div>Hi,</div><div> </div><div>We are using PostgreSQL 7.3 version,installed in linux system. Only DB is getting shut down 3-4 times a day. From my application end I get "Sorry toomany clients" error. <br />Refering the FAQ I maximized the DB session limit to 200. </div><div> </div><div>I think thelogs are not enabled in my DB. So I set the following options in postgresql.con file<br /> <br />log_timestamp= true<br/>log_directory=pg_log <br />log_filename=%Y-%m-%d_%H%M%S.log <br />log_disconnections=true <br />log_hostname=true </div><div>log_statement=true</div><div> </div><div> </div><div>After restartingthe system got the following error : </div><div>[root@localhostroot]# su postgres bash-2.05b$ postmaster -i -D /var/lib/pgsql/data FATAL: postgresql.conf:131:syntax error, <br />token="%" bash-2.05b$ postmaster -i -D /var/lib/pgsql/data FATAL: postgresql.conf:131:syntax error, token="%" bash-2.05b$ postmaster -i -D /var/lib/pgsql/data FATAL: postgresql.conf:131:syntax error, token="%" bash-2.05b$ postmaster -i -D /var/lib/pgsql/data FATAL: 'log_directory' is nota valid option name bash-2.05b$ postmaster -i -D /var/lib/pgsql/data FATAL: 'log_directory' is not a valid option namebash-2.05b$ postmaster -i -D /var/lib/pgsql/data FATAL: 'log_filename' is not a valid option name bash-2.05b$ postmaster-i -D /var/lib/pgsql/data FATAL: 'log_disconnections' is not a valid option name bash-2.05b$ postmaster -i -D /var/lib/pg</div><div><br/>When you install the DB, the logs are enabled by default?</div><div> </div><div>Would you plstell me still what setting need to be done?</div><div> </div><div>Thanks,<br />Vinayak V. Raikar<br />Extn : 143<br /><br/></div></font></div></div></font>
> We are using PostgreSQL 7.3 version, installed in linux > system. Only DB is getting shut down 3-4 times a day. From my > application end I get "Sorry too many clients" error. > Refering the FAQ I maximized the DB session limit to 200. > > I think the logs are not enabled in my DB. So I set the > following options in postgresql.con file > > log_timestamp= true > log_directory=pg_log > log_filename=%Y-%m-%d_%H%M%S.log > log_disconnections=true > log_hostname=true > log_statement=true > > > After restarting the system got the following error : > FATAL: postgresql.conf:131: syntax error, token="%" > FATAL: postgresql.conf:131: syntax error, token="%" > FATAL: postgresql.conf:131: syntax error, token="%" > FATAL: 'log_directory' is not a valid option name > FATAL: 'log_directory' is not a valid > FATAL: 'log_filename' is not a valid option name > FATAL: 'log_disconnections' is not a valid option name > > When you install the DB, the logs are enabled by default? > > Would you pls tell me still what setting need to be done? You can see in the documentation: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.3/static/runtime-config.html#LOGGING The parameters you used are for a different version of PostgreSQL. Yours, Laurenz Albe
2006/12/26, vinayakr@vmoksha.com <vinayakr@vmoksha.com>: > I think the logs are not enabled in my DB. So I set the following options in > postgresql.con file you are using some options which came with later postgresql releases. > log_timestamp= true ok > log_directory=pg_log wrong (available from 8.0) > log_filename=%Y-%m-%d_%H%M%S.log wrong (available from 8.0) > log_disconnections=true wrong (available from 8.0) > log_hostname=true wrong (available from 7.4) > log_statement=true OK you can review all runtime options for 7.3 here: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.3/static/runtime-config.html > When you install the DB, the logs are enabled by default? > Would you pls tell me still what setting need to be done? for 7.3, the default was to log to standard output. so you will have to redirect it, either to syslog (by setting syslog = 1), or to a file using shell redirection, or with pg_ctl option. see http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.3/static/app-pg-ctl.html F.