Re: tuplesort: unexpected end of data

On Sun, 9 Jun 2002, Tom Lane wrote:

>Can't you set up a situation where the failure is reproducible, then?
>On a day where you get the failure, dump the database and see if
>you can load the data into a fresh database and reproduce the problem.
>
Ok, I will do that...

>I don't necessarily believe the flaky-hardware theory, but I can't
>make much progress on the bug theory without a test case to look at.
>
Neither I believe it because the machine is well tested (including a
24h memtest). But there is something I can't get of my mind: once a day my
app "forces" PG to "play" with some 3GB of disk data in a ext2 fs. It is
known that sometimes ext2 corrupts data...

Thanks for the effort! :-)

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