I am new to Postgres and would like to know if there is a table where Postgres logs the errors if there is any. Something similar to the Oracle equivalent = dba_errors
Errors are logged to the error log, see the documentation. You can log to a file, the syslog daemon (on Unix) or the event log (on Windows).
There is no support for logging to a table, bbut you can load a CSV log file into a table.
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I have a 10gb postgresql file I am trying to open but it is not allowed.Pgadmin gives the output exit code as 1 and I can't get the data. When I do it in SQL Shell, it says it didn't allow it.When I put it in the general file areas, it still gives an error. I set the sharing options for everyone, it still didn't work.
Postgresql 9.6 and Pgadmin 4v4
I'm using DBeaver to connect the postgres db and want to access the logs via DBeaver.
I run the command below to find log destination and got stderr as the location.
show log_destination ;
How can I reach that file on DB app? FYI, I want all logs, not the logs that are from DBeaver.
On recent PostgreSQL versions, that is simple:
SELECT pg_current_logfile();
For old versions, proceed as follows:
Verify that the logging collector is started:
SHOW logging_collector;
If not, the location of the log depends on how PostgreSQL was started.
If yes, the log will be in log_directory:
SHOW log_directory;
If that is a relative path, it is relative to the PostgreSQL data directory.
Since the log file is on the database server, you probably won't be able to access it with a client tool.
https://tableplus.com/blog/2018/10/how-to-show-queries-log-in-postgresql.html#:~:text=The%20location%20of%20the%20log,pgsql%2Fdata%2Fpg_log%2F%20.
In Ubuntu is under /var/log/postgresql
You can run pg_lsclusters.
> pg_lsclusters
Ver Cluster Port Status Owner Data directory Log file
11 main 5432 online postgres /var/lib/postgresql/11/main /var/log/postgresql/postgresql-11-main.log
I am trying to export my Postgres table to a csv on my desktop and I get this error:
ERROR: could not open file "C:\Users\blah\Desktop\countyreport.csv" for writing: Permission denied
SQL state: 42501
This is my query which I believe is the correct syntax
COPY countyreport TO 'C:\\Users\\blah\\Desktop\\countyreport.csv' DELIMITER ',' CSV HEADER;
According to the user manual:
Files named in a COPY command are read or written directly by the
server, not by the client application.
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-copy.html
The common mistake is to believe that the filesystem access will be that of the (client) user, but it's not. It's normal to run the postgresql server as its own user. Therefore action carried out by the server will be done as a different OS user to the client. The server is usually run as an OS user postgres.
Assuming that you are running the server on your local machine then the simplest way to fix it would be to give postgres access to your home directory or desktop. This can be done by changing the windows security settings on your home directory.
Before you do this.... Stop and think. Is this what you are looking for? If the server is in development then will it always run on the user's machine. If not then you may need to use COPY to write to the stdout. See the manual for information on this.
I apologize for the long post. I have a Postgresql 9.3 server running on a Amazon linux AMI. I also have a compressed dump file from another server which I created using pg_dumpall. Now, I want to restore the data from this dump file in my Postgres. However, I want to load this data into a specific location (say /data).
I'm having a fresh installation of Postgres. So when I tried to do a:
sudo service postgresql93 start
I got an error message asking me to initialize the db. So I did a:
sudo service postgresql initdb
which created the required files in /var/lib/pgsql93/data. After that, I changed the 'data_directory' configuration in /var/lib/pgsql93/data/postgresql.conf and pointed it to /data (I had to do this as root user. I couldn't open the file as the default user).
Now when I try to do a
sudo service postgresql93 start
it fails to start, and when I check the /var/lib/pgsql93/pg_startup.log file, it says:
FATAL: "/data/postgresql" is not a valid data directory
DETAIL: File "/data/postgresql/PG_VERSION" is missing.
So I copied the files from the default (/var/lib/pgsql9.3/data) to /data, changed the permissions to 700 and owner to postgres.
However, when I try to start the service again, it still fails, and in the pgstartup.log, it only says:
LOG: redirecting log output to logging collector process
HINT: Future log output will appear in directory "pg_log".
And when I check the log in /data/pg_log, it says:
LOG: database system was shut down at 2014-12-30 21:31:18 UTC
LOG: database system is ready to accept connections
LOG: autovacuum launcher started
What else could be the problem? I haven't restored the data yet. I just have the files which were created by the initdb command.
#BMW http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-server-73/change-postgresql-data-directory-649911/ is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.
I have a database file (*.db) that need to be recovered.
The bad is, the end-user have null idea of the version of the database. Not know the password. The original developer is lost. The computer where was installed was formatted. We have not experience in this database software. Yeah, nightmare.
My guess is a old database. I'm trying to open it in Sybase 11, dev edition.
I follow this steps: http://dcx.sybase.com/1101en/sachanges_en11/unloading-reloading-upgrading-newjasper.html
I try to use the UNLOAD utility from command line & from the Sybase central utility. From command line I do:
./dbinfo -c "DBF=/Users/mamcx/Downloads/CEMDE_ENDOCRINO_S.A.DB;UID=DBA;PWD=sql"
SQL Anywhere Information Utility Version 11.0.1.2045
Unable to start specified database: '/Users/mamcx/Downloads/CEMDE_ENDOCRINO_S.A.DB' was created by a different version of the software
Ok, I try to unload:
./dbunload -c "DBF=/Users/mamcx/Downloads/CEMDE_ENDOCRINO_S.A.DB;UID=DBA;PWD=sql" -n /Users/mamcx/Desktop/
SQL Anywhere Unload Utility Version 11.0.1.2045
Connecting and initializing
***** SQL error: Unable to start database server
Ok, from the server admin tool:
dbunload -v -c "UID=dba;PWD=***;DBF=/Users/mamcx/Downloads/CEMDE_ENDOCRINO_S.A.DB" -an "/Users/mamcx/Desktop/baba.db" -ap 4096 -ea None -ii -sa -so _sc866192545
Connecting and initializing
***** SQL error: Unable to start database server
An error occurred while attempting to unload the database '/Users/mamcx/Downloads/CEMDE_ENDOCRINO_S.A.DB'.
Exist a way to know the version of the database server used to create this? Is possible to recover this file?
I don't know how to get the version out of the Database File if you are not able to start it.
You could get a hint from the hopefully existing Client PC's. Check the ODBC Driver Version they have installed.
I had good success with the support of Sybase. If you or your client has a support contract you can get them involved.
HTH
Try to simply start a server with that database and capture the output with -z -o server.out. The server.out file should contain a more specific error telling you why it can't start the database. This error can occur if you are trying to start something that is not a SQL Anywhere database.
You may also want to post this question over at http://sqlanywhere-forum.sap.com/.