Re: Corruption on production system

From: "Eric B(dot) Ridge" <ebr(at)tcdi(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>
Cc: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Corruption on production system
Date: 2005-04-26 01:49:43
Message-ID: BE8B3125-0FEF-4756-9B88-4BF2D29EED3B@tcdi.com
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On Apr 25, 2005, at 9:42 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> Well, you can get a page header corruption on any release as long
> as you
> have faulty hardware ... RAM randomly dropping bits is not unheard of.
> Have you run memtest?

No doubt. :) What I was asking was if 7.3.9 (or .8 or .7) had a
known issue that caused page corruption and if upgrading would fix
that bug. Regardless, I went ahead and upgraded.

eric

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