Re: "Could not read block" during vacuum

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: jao(at)geophile(dot)com
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: "Could not read block" during vacuum
Date: 2005-04-17 20:32:03
Message-ID: 1821.1113769923@sss.pgh.pa.us
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jao(at)geophile(dot)com writes:
> 2005-04-16 00:00:53 ERROR: could not read block 52 of
> relation "idx_ef_hash": Input/output error

> Googling didn't turn up useful information on this problem. Can anyone
> tell me whether this error indicates a disk problem, OS problem, known
> postgres bug, or something else? We've only seen this occur once.

Hardware problem ... probably the disk, but could be disk interface.

regards, tom lane

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