Re: [HACKERS] Index corruption

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Adriaan Joubert <a(dot)joubert(at)albourne(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Index corruption
Date: 1999-12-29 14:07:25
Message-ID: 199912291407.JAA02208@candle.pha.pa.us
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> Further to my problem: I've run the vacuum in a backend under the debugger and
> at least figured out in which
> loop the zillions of files are created. It is in md.c. In the stack trace
> below, you can see that blockno has got a totally stupid value and in the loop
> in lines 1049-1063 in md.c (v 6.5.3. sources) it opens zillions of files. If
> anybody knows where this comes from I'd appreciate it. In the meantime I'll
> try to dig a bit further.

Were you the person I told to use pg_upgrade and re-initdb your
database? If not, I would recommend that as the fix. You may need to
re-enable pg_upgrade by editing the script.

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