Re: unexpected data beyond EOF and character encoding

The kernel is Linux 2.6.5
I'll drop and redo this evening after hours - the migration takes a
couple of hours. The source database is under medium load, with a couple
of heavy updates, but the target database is a clean 8.2.3 install, and
only being written to by pg_restore.
So I take it that this happens on the restore part, not the dump part then?

Thanks
Jaime

Tom Lane wrote:
> Jaime Silvela <JSilvela(at)Bear(dot)com> writes:
>
>> I'm seeing these messages
>>
>
>
>> ERROR: unexpected data beyond EOF in block 4506 of relation
>> "coverage_test_val"
>> HINT: This has been seen to occur with buggy kernels; consider updating
>> your system.
>>
>
> So what kernel are you running, on what hardware? Is the problem
> reproducible if you drop the target database and start over? The
> known cases of this problem have been under heavy concurrent update
> load (multiple sessions trying to extend a table concurrently).
> I don't entirely see how you could get it if the COPY is the only
> thing writing that table ...
>
> regards, tom lane
>
>

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