Re: [GENERAL] 8.2.3 PANIC with "corrupted item pointer"

2007-06-22 Thread Tom Lane
Henk - CityWEB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Tom Lane wrote: >> FWIW, the only occurrences of that specific message text are in >> PageIndexTupleDelete and PageIndexMultiDelete, so you can be pretty sure >> that this is just a corrupted-index problem. Once you've identified >>

Re: [GENERAL] 8.2.3 PANIC with "corrupted item pointer"

2007-06-22 Thread Henk - CityWEB
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Tom Lane wrote: > "Henka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I happened to notice this error in the log when my application was refused > > a db connection (quite unexpectedly): > > > PANIC: corrupted item pointer: offset = 3308, size = 28 > > LOG: autovacuum process (PID 181

Re: [GENERAL] 8.2.3 PANIC with "corrupted item pointer"

2007-06-21 Thread Hannes Dorbath
Henk - CityWEB wrote: > I can't wait to get a decent master/multi-slave setup going where I can > turn fsync on and still get semi-decent performance... I don't see how replication can help you with fsync performance problems. Controllers with battery backed write cache are cheap. What is the poin

Re: [GENERAL] 8.2.3 PANIC with "corrupted item pointer"

2007-06-21 Thread Henk - CityWEB
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Gregory Stark wrote: > Ugh. The worst part is that you won't even know that there's anything wrong > with your data. I would actually suggest that if you run with fsync off and > have a power failure or kernel crash you should just immediately restore from > your last backup

Re: [GENERAL] 8.2.3 PANIC with "corrupted item pointer"

2007-06-21 Thread Henk - CityWEB
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Tom Lane wrote: > "Henka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I happened to notice this error in the log when my application was refused > > a db connection (quite unexpectedly): > > > PANIC: corrupted item pointer: offset = 3308, size = 28 > > LOG: autovacuum process (PID 1816

Re: [GENERAL] 8.2.3 PANIC with "corrupted item pointer"

2007-06-21 Thread Tom Lane
"Henka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I happened to notice this error in the log when my application was refused > a db connection (quite unexpectedly): > PANIC: corrupted item pointer: offset = 3308, size = 28 > LOG: autovacuum process (PID 18165) was terminated by signal 6 FWIW, the only occu

Re: [GENERAL] 8.2.3 PANIC with "corrupted item pointer"

2007-06-21 Thread Gregory Stark
"Henka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Other than that it might be interesting to know the values of some server >> parameters: "fsync" and "full_page_writes". Have you ever had this machine >> crash or had a power failure? And what kind of i/o controller is this? > > fsync = off > full_page_writ

Re: [GENERAL] 8.2.3 PANIC with "corrupted item pointer"

2007-06-21 Thread Henka
>> I'm using PG 8.2.3: > > You should update to 8.2.4, it includes a security fix and several bug > fixes. That was my next option. My last backup dump looks suspiciously small, but the day before that looks about right. > My first thought is bad memory. It's always good to rule that out sinc

Re: [GENERAL] 8.2.3 PANIC with "corrupted item pointer"

2007-06-21 Thread Gregory Stark
"Henka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello all, > > I'm using PG 8.2.3: You should update to 8.2.4, it includes a security fix and several bug fixes. However afaik none of them look like this. > PANIC: corrupted item pointer: offset = 3308, size = 28 > LOG: autovacuum process (PID 18165) was

[GENERAL] 8.2.3 PANIC with "corrupted item pointer"

2007-06-21 Thread Henka
Hello all, I'm using PG 8.2.3: PostgreSQL 8.2.3 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 3.3.6 I happened to notice this error in the log when my application was refused a db connection (quite unexpectedly): PANIC: corrupted item pointer: offset = 3308, size = 28 LOG: autovacuum proces