On 26/11/05 4:14 pm, "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Adam Witney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> pg_dump: ERROR:  unexpected chunk number 5153 (expected 21) for toast value
>> 245334402
> 
>> measured_bioassay_base is always inserted at the same time as mba_data_base
>> (the table where I had the problem before) and it has a text field which is
>> very large..
> 
> How large is "very large" ... on the order of 10Mb?  If so I'd say this
> is the same problem as we saw in your table --- a lot of consecutive
> rows have gone missing.  You could examine the toast table to confirm
> or deny this.

Yes, around 10Mb is about right.

I deleted the two datasets in mba_data_base that were affected by the empty
pages, I also deleted the relevant two rows in measured_bioassay_base... But
maybe it didn't do the right thing with the toast table for these two rows?
Where would I need to look to see what the problem is?

Thanks again for the help.

Adam


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