Chris <pglist(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> This is Postgresql 8 RC 1 on freebsd 5.3.
> I changed the type of a column from varchar(128) to varchar(256), and
> right after that I got the following messages when doing inserts on
> the table in question.
> <41e0e2c3.fd54>ERROR: SMgrRelation hashtable corrupted
> <41e0e2c3.fd54>STATEMENT: commit
Hmm. We got another report of that back in September, but AFAICS from
the archives it was never resolved because we couldn't reproduce it.
Can you come up with a reproducible test case?
regards, tom lane