postgresql

PostgreSQL init fails with empty /etc/postgresql/conf.d in Kubernetes

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Problem Description During development of an AI training pipeline on Docker Desktop’s integrated Kubernetes cluster, the PostgreSQL pod that stores experiment metadata and feature‑store data fails to start. The pod repeatedly enters CrashLoopBackOff and the container logs contain errors such as: 2024-07-15 10:12:34.567 UTC [1] LOG: could not open configuration file “/etc/postgresql/conf.d/custom.conf”: Permission denied 2024-07-15 … Read more

PostgreSQL vector search malformed JSON response after RAG pipeline update

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Problem Description After a routine update to the Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline, the citation extraction step began returning malformed JSON objects. Downstream the LLM serializer throws errors such as: JSON parsing error: Unexpected token ‘}’ at position 127 ERROR: invalid input syntax for type jsonb Observed symptoms in production logs: API responses missing source_id fields … Read more

PostgreSQL streaming query interrupted mid execution in air gapped environment

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PostgreSQL Streaming Query Interrupted Mid‑Execution in an Air‑Gapped Environment Problem Description An AI inference service running inside a sealed laboratory network streams large SELECT result sets from PostgreSQL using a custom asynchronous Python client. During execution the client receives only a partial set of rows and then the connection is terminated. Typical symptoms include: Log … Read more

PostgreSQL container fails to bind persistent volume claim in K8s

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Problem: PostgreSQL Pod Stalls Because PVC Remains Pending A PostgreSQL container launched by a StatefulSet (or plain Deployment) cannot start. The pod events contain messages such as: Warning FailedMount 12s (x3 over 30s) kubelet MountVolume.SetUp failed for volume “postgres-data” : could not attach or mount volume: failed to find a matching node for volume and the … Read more

RAG embedding dimension mismatch in PostgreSQL after model update

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Problem: RAG Embedding Dimension Mismatch after Model Update An event‑driven pipeline streams records into a PostgreSQL table that stores vector embeddings generated by a Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) model. After upgrading the model, inserts and similarity queries start failing with errors such as: ERROR: column “embedding” is of type vector(1536) but expression is of type vector(768) … Read more

PostgreSQL vision token embedding overflow during ML training

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Problem – Vision Token Embedding Overflow During ML Training A machine‑learning pipeline extracts image embeddings (e.g., CLIP vision tokens) and stores each intermediate token vector in a PostgreSQL table while training. During a nightly training run the following symptoms were observed: Rapid disk consumption: storage grew from 200 GB to 1.2 TB within a few hours. PostgreSQL … Read more

PostgreSQL HPA not scaling under high CPU usage

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Problem – PostgreSQL HPA Not Scaling Under High CPU Usage The PostgreSQL deployment runs in a Kubernetes cluster that is part of an AI‑driven orchestration platform. During traffic spikes the API gateway generates thousands of concurrent requests per second, causing PostgreSQL CPU utilization to rise sharply. Expected behavior is that the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) … Read more

PostgreSQL OAuth2 token refresh fails due to network latency

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Problem – OAuth2 Token Refresh Fails on Edge Nodes In a remote industrial monitoring deployment an edge‑computing node runs PostgreSQL 15 with OAuth2‑based client authentication. When the network latency to the central authentication service exceeds a few hundred milliseconds, connections are abruptly terminated and the following errors appear in the PostgreSQL log: 2024-05-12 10:23:45.123 UTC … Read more

PostgreSQL webhook timeout during rolling update in Kubernetes

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Problem: Webhook timeout during rolling update of PostgreSQL pods in Kubernetes During a CI/CD‑driven rolling update of a PostgreSQL StatefulSet (or a Patroni‑managed cluster), the admission webhook that validates pod creation repeatedly fails with a timeout. Typical error messages observed in the controller logs are: Failed calling webhook “postgresql-admission-webhook”: context deadline exceeded Error from server … Read more

PostgreSQL service discovery failure in Docker Compose

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Problem Description In a local AI training sandbox the microservices that compose the pipeline cannot locate the PostgreSQL instance. The typical error observed in the consuming service logs is: 2023-07-21T14:12:03.123Z microservice-a[12]: could not translate host name “postgres” to address: Name or service not known Other variants that appear during the investigation include: FATAL: could not … Read more