Re: unexpected data beyond EOF and character encoding

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>
Cc: Jaime Silvela <JSilvela(at)Bear(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: unexpected data beyond EOF and character encoding
Date: 2007-03-30 18:57:30
Message-ID: 22378.1175281050@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc> writes:
> 2.6.5-7.244 looks like an older SLES kernel which makes this bug
> suspicially look like one we got reported a while ago:
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-admin/2006-09/msg00092.php
> and toms analysis:
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-09/msg01899.php

Just for context: the error message you are seeing is the one I added
pursuant to the second message above. If you'd been running this with
an older PG version, you'd have been experiencing silent data loss
instead of the error :-(

regards, tom lane

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