Re: error - NOTICE: current transaction...MORE DETAIL...

new info...maybe it's too early to say, but it seems that i only have this
problem with 7.1...i just went back to 7.0 db and jdbc driver and now i am
running without incident...

t.r. - what are you running?

have any connection parameters changed?  is there anything i need to change
in order to upgrade to 7.1?  (other than that rs.absolute(index + 1) thing)?
for a brief period, i was running 7.0 with the 7.1 drivers and i was getting
the same behavior...don't know if that means anything to anyone...

a brief history of how i got here:
for the past year i have been running 7.0 with one problem - fastpath
errors.  i recently decided to make the upgrade to 7.1 with the hopes that i
might get more info on my FP problem.  so i switched and started getting the
errors that we have been discussing here - whether or not i work with Large
Objects.

i have noticed one other pattern - this might be very important:
it seems like my set of errors is always preceded by one of those "must set
transaction isolation level..." messages.  to be more precise, it is always
preceded by the system trying to commit all connections that are associated
with a user so that they can throw them back to the "available" connection
pool.  when this commit() is run, i get the transaction isolation level
exception, then everything falls apart.  will this happen if i call commit
on a conn that was already committed?  what causes that error to be
thrown???

thanks
chris

-----Original Message-----
From: admin [mailto:admin]On Behalf Of Antonio Fiol Bonnin
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 11:47 AM
To: cmarkiew@commnav.com
Cc: T.R.Missner@Level3.com; pgsql-jdbc@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [JDBC] error - NOTICE: current transaction...MORE DETAIL...


I understand.

However, doesn't the exception automatically do some kind of rollback? I
can't
remember where I read such a thing...

Antonio

chris markiewicz wrote:

> antonio
>
> thanks.  it actually does apply to some degree.  i have noticed that
rolling
> back the connection will sometimes prevent subsequent errors, but for some
> reason it is not completely predictable...
>
> the bigger issue is that the db is throwing errors that i don't
understand.
> i might have just discovered a pattern - i'll post it as soon as i am more
> certain of it.  but rolling back whenever i get an unpredictable exception
> will kill any transaction.  this is a problem.   it will also require some
> localized but non-trivial rework in the persistence layer.  i really don't
> want to do that unless i have no other avenues.
>
> thanks for your response.
>
> chris
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: admin [mailto:admin]On Behalf Of Antonio Fiol Bonnin
> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 11:18 AM
> To: T.R.Missner@Level3.com
> Cc: cmarkiew@commnav.com; pgsql-jdbc@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [JDBC] error - NOTICE: current transaction...MORE DETAIL...
>
> I'm no expert at all, but, --forgive me!!-- have you tried to roll back
upon
> the first exception you get?
>
> Or maybe try to get the warnings in your ResultSet to see if something is
> there, though I do not remember having done so.
>
> I remember having something similar when I tried to read from a table that
> did
> not exist (mangled name). That request throwed an exception, and if I
> ignored
> the exception, all subsequent requests did show this kind of behaviour, or
a
> similar one.
>
> Forget my message if it doesn't apply to your problem, please.
>
> Antonio Fiol
>
> T.R.Missner@Level3.com wrote:
>
> > I really don't understand why this is happening either.
> > my current guess is that there is something going on
> > in the way we are reusing connections.  To answer your
> > question I don't think there is any relationship between the
> > 2 connections just that after the first one is corrupted
> > I use the second one until it gets corrupted, then
> > create new ones and start again.  I have to assume
> > that we are doing something wrong in our use of
> > these connections and am focusing my effort in that
> > direction right now.
> >
> > Sure wish one of the experts would chime in on this.
> >
> > t.r.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: chris markiewicz [mailto:cmarkiew@commnav.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 7:17 AM
> > To: Missner, T. R.; pgsql-jdbc@postgresql.org;
> > pgsql-jdbc-owner@postgresql.org
> > Subject: RE: [JDBC] error - NOTICE: current transaction...MORE DETAIL...
> >
> > tr
> >
> > things have gotten a little worse...i recently upgraded to postgresql
7.1
> > and now i am seeing this behavior even WITHOUT large objects.  it
happens
> > much less frequently without LOs, but it still happens.  i never saw
this
> > behavior in 7.0.  are you seeing the same behavior?
> >
> > i guess i don't understand the following:  right, each connection is a
> > different process.  so if you use the second connection, why should it
> fail
> > too?  it should have no relationship to the first connection, since it
is
> a
> > different process.
> > i was discussing this with a co-worker and he suggested that the first
> > connection might be "spilling" into the second (when you grab the first
> two
> > connections, they may inhabit contiguous memory spaces...the first one
> gets
> > corrupted and corrupts the second...i admit that i am no unix expert so
> > while i can picture such a thing, i have no idea whether or not it is
> > possible.)  anyway, you grab the third connection and it's not corrupt.
> > does that make any sense?
> >
> > chris
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: T.R.Missner@Level3.com [mailto:T.R.Missner@Level3.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 12:45 PM
> > To: cmarkiew@commnav.com; pgsql-jdbc@postgresql.org;
> > pgsql-jdbc-owner@postgresql.org
> > Subject: RE: [JDBC] error - NOTICE: current transaction...MORE DETAIL...
> >
> > What I have is a connection pool.
> > I initially grab 2 connections, one primary one secondary.
> > If the insert fails on the primary connection I try the
> > secondary, if it fails I simply delete the 2 I have and grab
> > 2 more from the connection pool.  After creating the new ones
> > I have never seen it fail the first few times which is what
> > leads me to believe that something in the connection itself is
> > getting corrupted over time.  Note that each connection is a separate
> > process in the unix environment.  I believe it is this process that
> > is getting corrupted note necessarily the java connection wrapper.
> >
> > Of course this is all guess work right now.  I'll let you know if I
> > come up with a better solution or are able to determine why
> > these connections act like they are getting corrupt.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: chris markiewicz [mailto:cmarkiew@commnav.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 5:42 AM
> > To: Missner, T. R.; pgsql-jdbc-owner@postgresql.org
> > Cc: pgsql-jdbc@postgresql.org
> > Subject: RE: [JDBC] error - NOTICE: current transaction...MORE DETAIL...
> >
> > follow-up question - you say that if you get one exception, you try the
> > insert with another connection...if that doesn't work you delete the
> > existing connections and get new ones...
> >
> > i must be missing something - why wouldn't using the second connection
> > always work?  if you get rid of the offending connection (the first
one),
> > why does the second one have a problem?  or am i confusing your
connection
> > object with the actual connection?
> >
> > thanks
> > chris
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: T.R.Missner@Level3.com [mailto:T.R.Missner@Level3.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 3:35 PM
> > To: cmarkiew@commnav.com; pgsql-jdbc-owner@postgresql.org
> > Cc: pgsql-jdbc@postgresql.org
> > Subject: RE: [JDBC] error - NOTICE: current transaction...MORE DETAIL...
> >
> > Chris,
> >
> > I had the same problem on the insert side and thought it went away but
> > it is back and I am convinced it is related to more than one thread
using
> > the same connection at the same time.  What I have done as a work around
> > in the interim ( until I write my own connection manager class ) is
catch
> > the exception and try the insert again with another connection.  If it
> still
> >
> > fails I delete the connections I have and create new ones and the insert
> > ALWAYS works after that.  So it appears to me that something is
happening
> > to my connection object that is causing it to get corrupted to some
> extent.
> > Once a connection throws this exception it seems much more likely to do
so
> > again which is why I am deleting connections and creating new ones if I
> have
> > 2 failures back to back.  This isn't the answer you are looking for but
> > I hoped it might help you think of other ways to troubleshoot your
> problem.
> >
> > Since I put this work around in I have been able to run a very high rate
> > and haven't lost any data on the insert side.  My guess is that these
> > Fastpath
> > transactions are very slow compared to non fastpath transactions and it
> > is easy to use a connection that hasn't finished what it is doing.
> >
> > I even used a synchronized method to hopefully block on the connection
> > but this didn't fix the problem either.  Must be some threading going on
> > in the connection class.  I haven't had the time to go through the code
> > but I will at some point.
> >
> > I know someone out there has some insight that could help.
> >
> > t.r. missner
> > level(3) communications
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: chris markiewicz [mailto:cmarkiew@commnav.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 11:40 AM
> > To: cmarkiew@commnav.com; 'Postgres Jdbc (E-mail)'
> > Cc: pgsql-jdbc@postgresql.org
> > Subject: Re: [JDBC] error - NOTICE: current transaction...MORE DETAIL...
> >
> > hello.  i have some more details on this problem...i found the reference
> to
> > calling rollback when you get this sort of error.
> > (http://fts.postgresql.org/db/mw/msg.html?mid=1030879)... i have started
> > doing that, but i am still getting the problem.
> >
> > i have the setup shown below...i've learned that i can usually get
around
> > the fastpath error if i try the query a few times...so i make it call up
> to
> > 10 times if there is an error...the po.load() call runs the (SELECT
> > versionid, versionid, versioncomment, versionlabel, creatorid,
documentid,
> > versionorder, datestamp, versioncontent FROM
> > document_version WHERE versionid = 1034272) query from the last message
i
> > sent (see below)...if that throws an exception, i catch it, rollback,
and
> > contine...i am still seeing the same behavior though...
> >
> >     public void loadComplex(User user) throws SBHException {
> >         int iterations = 10;
> >         try {
> >             //## TODO:
> >             //## occasionally get a fastpath exception here...try to
> >             //## call load() as many as 10 times if there is an
> exception...
> >             //## this is here only as a test...
> >             //## chris markiewicz
> >             int i = 0;
> >             boolean exceptionfound = false;
> >             boolean goodResult = false;
> >             while (!goodResult && i < iterations) {
> >                 try {
> >                     i++;
> >                     dv = (DocumentVersion)po.load(versionid, user);
> >                     goodResult = true;
> >                 } catch (Exception e) {
> >                     System.out.println("SBHDocument.loadComplex
exception
> > attempt:"+i);
> >                     try {po.rollback(user);} catch (Exception e3)
{...log
> > here...}
> >                     exceptionfound = true;
> >                     Log.log("SBHDocument.loadComplex attempt:"+i);
> >                     Log.log("SBHDocument.loadComplex e:"+e);
> >                     if (i == (iterations - 1)) {
> >                         throw e;
> >                     }
> >                 }
> >             }
> >             if (exceptionfound) {
> >                 ...log here...
> >             }
> >         } catch (TransactionException te) {
> >             throw te;
> >         } catch (SBHSecurityException sse) {
> >             throw sse;
> >         } catch (SBHException sbe) {
> >             throw sbe;
> >         } catch (Exception e) {
> >             throw new SBHException(e);
> >         }
> >     }
> >
> > here is the log calling that query many times:
> >
> > DEBUG:  StartTransactionCommand
> > DEBUG:  query: SELECT versionid, versionid, versioncomment,
versionlabel,
> > creatorid, documentid, versionorder, datestamp, versioncontent FROM
> > document_version WHERE versionid = 1034277
> > NOTICE:  current transaction is aborted, queries ignored until end of
> > transaction block
> > DEBUG:  CommitTransactionCommand
> > DEBUG:  StartTransactionCommand
> > DEBUG:  query: SELECT versionid, versionid, versioncomment,
versionlabel,
> > creatorid, documentid, versionorder, datestamp, versioncontent FROM
> > document_version WHERE versionid = 1034277
> > NOTICE:  current transaction is aborted, queries ignored until end of
> > transaction block
> > DEBUG:  CommitTransactionCommand
> > DEBUG:  StartTransactionCommand
> > DEBUG:  query: SELECT versionid, versionid, versioncomment,
versionlabel,
> > creatorid, documentid, versionorder, datestamp, versioncontent FROM
> > document_version WHERE versionid = 1034277
> > NOTICE:  current transaction is aborted, queries ignored until end of
> > transaction block
> > DEBUG:  CommitTransactionCommand
> > DEBUG:  StartTransactionCommand
> > DEBUG:  query: SELECT versionid, versionid, versioncomment,
versionlabel,
> > creatorid, documentid, versionorder, datestamp, versioncontent FROM
> > document_version WHERE versionid = 1034277
> > NOTICE:  current transaction is aborted, queries ignored until end of
> > transaction block
> > DEBUG:  CommitTransactionCommand
> > DEBUG:  StartTransactionCommand
> > DEBUG:  query: SELECT versionid, versionid, versioncomment,
versionlabel,
> > creatorid, documentid, versionorder, datestamp, versioncontent FROM
> > document_version WHERE versionid = 1034277
> > NOTICE:  current transaction is aborted, queries ignored until end of
> > transaction block
> > DEBUG:  CommitTransactionCommand
> >
> > chris
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pgsql-jdbc-owner@postgresql.org
> > [mailto:pgsql-jdbc-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of chris markiewicz
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 11:42 AM
> > To: Postgres Jdbc (E-mail)
> > Cc: pgsql-jdbc@postgresql.org
> > Subject: [JDBC] error - NOTICE: current transaction is aborted, queries
> > ignored until end of transaction block
> >
> > Hello.
> >
> > I have been having problems with postgresql large objects...i have been
> > searching the archives of this group and i have posted a question or two
> but
> > i have so far be unable to resolve the issues.  right now, i have a
screen
> > that loads a few LOs...they occasionally don't make it to the screen.  i
> see
> > a couple of different errors in my log files (which i included below).
i
> > turned on debugging (d2) and i see the following on many of my queries
> (see
> > below).
> >
> > DEBUG:  StartTransactionCommand
> > DEBUG:  query: SELECT DISTINCT sbhd.timestamp AS "modifydate",
> > sbhd.versionid AS "versionid", sbhd.documentdescription AS
> > "sbhdocumentdescription", sbhd.maxversions AS "maxversions",
> sbhd.documentid
> > AS "sbhdocumentid", sbhd.hidden AS "hidden", sbhd.documentpath AS
> > "sbhdocumentpath", sbhd.parentid AS "parentid", sbhd.ownerid AS
"ownerid",
> > sbhd.documentname AS "sbhdocumentname", sbhd.createtimestamp AS
> "createdate"
> > FROM document sbhd  WHERE  sbhd.documentpath =
> > '/cmarkiew/porsche/porsche_speedster.jpg'
> > DEBUG:  ProcessQuery
> > DEBUG:  CommitTransactionCommand
> > DEBUG:  StartTransactionCommand
> > DEBUG:  query: SELECT versionid, versionid, versioncomment,
versionlabel,
> > creatorid, documentid, versionorder, datestamp, versioncontent FROM
> > document_version WHERE versionid = 1034272
> > NOTICE:  current transaction is aborted, queries ignored until end of
> > transaction block
> > DEBUG:  CommitTransactionCommand
> > DEBUG:  StartTransactionCommand
> > DEBUG:  query: SELECT versionid, versionid, versioncomment,
versionlabel,
> > creatorid, documentid, versionorder, datestamp, versioncontent FROM
> > document_version WHERE versionid = 1034272
> > NOTICE:  current transaction is aborted, queries ignored until end of
> > transaction block
> > DEBUG:  CommitTransactionCommand
> >
> > what causes the "current transaction is aborted, queries ignored until
end
> > of transaction block?"  the first query in the above debug block does
not
> > load an LO, but the second one does.  after the second query, seems like
> all
> > subsequent have that message...my log file starts getting a bunch of the
> > following:
> >
> > No results were returned by the query.
> >         at
org.postgresql.jdbc2.Statement.executeQuery(Statement.java:63)
> >         at
> > com.commnav.sbh.framework.persist.JDBCEngine.load(JDBCEngine.java:274)
> >         at
> >
>
com.commnav.sbh.framework.persist.PersistenceObject.load(PersistenceObject.j
> > ava:169)
> >         at
> >
>
com.commnav.sbh.framework.documentmanager.SBHDocument.loadComplex(SBHDocumen
> > t.java:402)
> >         at
> >
>
com.commnav.sbh.framework.documentmanager.SBHDocument.getSBHDocument(SBHDocu
> > ment.java:363)
> >         at
> >
com.commnav.sbh.servlets.DocumentManager.doPost(DocumentManager.java:201)
> >         at
> > com.commnav.sbh.servlets.CommnavServlet.doGet(CommnavServlet.java:170)
> >         at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:740)
> >         at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
> >         at
> > org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.doService(ServletWrapper.java:404)
> >         at org.apache.tomcat.core.Handler.service(Handler.java:286)
> >         at
> > org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.service(ServletWrapper.java:372)
> >         at
> >
>
org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.internalService(ContextManager.java:79
> > 7)
> >         at
> > org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(ContextManager.java:743)
> >         at
> >
>
org.apache.tomcat.service.http.HttpConnectionHandler.processConnection(HttpC
> > onnectionHandler.java:210)
> >         at
> >
org.apache.tomcat.service.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:416)
> >         at
> >
org.apache.tomcat.util.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:498)
> >         at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484)
> > No results were returned by the query.
> >         at
org.postgresql.jdbc2.Statement.executeQuery(Statement.java:63)
> >         at
> > com.commnav.sbh.framework.persist.JDBCEngine.load(JDBCEngine.java:274)
> >         at
> >
>
com.commnav.sbh.framework.persist.PersistenceObject.load(PersistenceObject.j
> > ava:169)
> >         at
> >
>
com.commnav.sbh.framework.documentmanager.SBHDocument.loadComplex(SBHDocumen
> > t.java:402)
> >         at
> >
>
com.commnav.sbh.framework.documentmanager.SBHDocument.getSBHDocument(SBHDocu
> > ment.java:363)
> >         at
> >
com.commnav.sbh.servlets.DocumentManager.doPost(DocumentManager.java:201)
> >         at
> > com.commnav.sbh.servlets.CommnavServlet.doGet(CommnavServlet.java:170)
> >         at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:740)
> >         at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
> >         at
> > org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.doService(ServletWrapper.java:404)
> >         at org.apache.tomcat.core.Handler.service(Handler.java:286)
> >         at
> > org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.service(ServletWrapper.java:372)
> >         at
> >
>
org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.internalService(ContextManager.java:79
> > 7)
> >         at
> > org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(ContextManager.java:743)
> >         at
> >
>
org.apache.tomcat.service.http.HttpConnectionHandler.processConnection(HttpC
> > onnectionHandler.java:210)
> >         at
> >
org.apache.tomcat.service.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:416)
> >         at
> >
org.apache.tomcat.util.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:498)
> >         at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484)
> >
> > what should i look for?  can i get other information from logs (i think
i
> > can raise the log level to 3 if it would help).  i can send pieces of
> code,
> > but our data layer is pretty abstracted, so i don't know how much that
> would
> > help.
> >
> > finally, an apology.  i started a thread about this issue a few weeks
ago
> > but got pulled onto some other stuff.  i am determined to follow this
> until
> > i fix it this time.
> >
> > i appreciate your help.
> > chris
> >
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