Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Markus Wollny wrote:
> > magazine=# vacuum analyze pcaction.article;
> > PANIC: corrupted item pointer: 5
> > server closed the connection unexpectedly
> > This probably means the server terminated abnormally
> > before or while processing the request.
> > The connection to the server was lost. Attempting reset: Failed.
>
> This error comes from this piece of PageRepairFragmentation:
> if (itemidptr->itemoff < (int) pd_upper ||
> itemidptr->itemoff >= (int) pd_special)
> ereport(ERROR,
> (errcode(ERRCODE_DATA_CORRUPTED),
> errmsg("corrupted item pointer: %u",
> itemidptr->itemoff)));
I forgot to mention that this ERROR is promoted to PANIC by the
critical section defined in lazy_vacuum_page().
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