Re: PANIC during VACUUM

From: Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at>
To: "German Becker *EXTERN*" <german(dot)becker(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PANIC during VACUUM
Date: 2013-04-30 12:08:25
Message-ID: A737B7A37273E048B164557ADEF4A58B05804AEC@ntex2010a.host.magwien.gv.at
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German Becker wrote:
> Just in case there are some errors in my first email, where it says "after deleting the context of the
> same big table" It should say "after deleting de contents of the same big table" I essence what i did
> is
>
> DELETE from table;
> VACUUM table;
>
> And I got the error

>> I am testing version 9.1.9 before putting it in production. One of my tests involved deleting a the
>> contents of a big table ( ~ 13 GB size) and then VACUUMing it. During VACUUM PANICS. Here is the
>> message:
>>
>> PANIC: corrupted item pointer: offset = 8128, size = 80

Sorry for misunderstanding you.
A DELETE should definitely not cause such an error.

Can you provide a reproducible test case?
Is that a new database or could it be some prior corruption?

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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