"Sergey E. Koposov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In the process of converting a multi-Tb datadabe from 8.2 to 8.3, Postgres 8.3
> died at the failed assertion:
>
> TRAP: FailedAssertion("!(((toast_pointer).va_extsize <
> (toast_pointer).va_rawsize - ((int32) sizeof(int32))))", File:
> "tuptoaster.c", Line: 1134)
...
> Does anyone have ideas what could be the reason for the bug ?
What the assert is saying is that the datum it's trying to toast is compressed
but the compressed version is larger than the original -- which shouldn't ever
happen because we don't store such data compressed.
I haven't quite figured out where the error is yet though.
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