Re: Uninitialized page - fixing

From: Björn Metzdorf <bm(at)turtle-entertainment(dot)de>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Uninitialized page - fixing
Date: 2003-06-08 23:49:44
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>> recently we are suffering from repeated
>> WARNING: Rel pg_toast_77798203: Uninitialized page 25489 - fixing
>
> Hmm. There is a known mechanism for that to happen in 7.2 and before,
> but not in 7.3. Can you see any pattern in the messages?

Here is another example:

2003-06-05 21:27:08 WARNING: Rel psessions: Uninitialized page 185 - fixing

psessions is often read from and written to, but it is not very big
(thousands, perhaps tenthousands of rows) and it is regularly vacuumed
(every 5 to 15 minutes). These messages appear under heavy load only (more
than 700 concurrent connections to the backend).

Since then (2003-06-05) we didn't get this message again.

I cannot see any pattern there, but at least with our old server, those
messages came just ahead some hardware problems (pg_clog problems, tables
were gone). But our new server right now is running very smoothly.

I will upgrade to 7.3.3 as soon as I find some time.

Regards,
Bjoern

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