Re: [HACKERS] Index corruption

From: Ed Loehr <ELOEHR(at)austin(dot)rr(dot)com>
To: Adriaan Joubert <a(dot)joubert(at)albourne(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Index corruption
Date: 1999-12-23 18:45:56
Message-ID: 38626DE4.980D4617@austin.rr.com
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Were other queries occurring during your vacuum? There have been reports
in these mailing lists that concurrent queries cause vacuum failures...

Cheers,
Ed Loehr

Adriaan Joubert wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Something in my pg_proc table got corrupted and when trying to
> vacuum it, vacuum would create thousands of index files in the database
> directory. It would just go into an endless loop and all it seems to do
> is create files. Anybody else seen this before? I've tried everything
> and am now in the process of dumping all the data out table by table and
> rebuilding the database from scratch. Any ideas what I can do to avoid
> this or any idea how this could have happened? I'm running 6.5.2 on
> Digital Unix 4.0F.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Adriaan
>
> ************

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