Re: [HACKERS] ERROR: could not read block

I'm not an expert on that, but it seems reasonable to me that the
page pool would free space as the I/O system caught up with
the load. Also, I'm going on what was said by Qingqing and
in one of the pages he referenced:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;274310

-Kevin

>>> Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> >>>
"Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> writes:
> None of this seems material, however. It's pretty clear that the
> problem was exhaustion of the Windows page pool.
> ...
> If we don't want to tell Windows users to make highly technical
> changes to the Windows registry in order to use PostgreSQL,
> it does seem wise to use retries, as has already been discussed
> on this thread.

Would a simple retry loop actually help? It's not clear to me how
persistent such a failure would be.

regards, tom lane