Re: cannot read block 39 of pg_attribute_relid_attnam_index: Input/output error

From: Doug McNaught <doug(at)wireboard(dot)com>
To: "Andrew Bartley" <abartley(at)evolvosystems(dot)com>
Cc: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: cannot read block 39 of pg_attribute_relid_attnam_index: Input/output error
Date: 2002-03-17 23:56:06
Message-ID: m3adt6wxyh.fsf@varsoon.denali.to
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"Andrew Bartley" <abartley(at)evolvosystems(dot)com> writes:

> I run a nightly cron that drops all of the application table indexes
> then unload and reload the most heavily used tables to ensure they
> are in key sequence, then vacuum analyse the whole DB, recreate the
> indexes and triggers.
>
> Over the weekend, this error appeared.
>
> ERROR: cannot read block 39 of pg_attribute_relid_attnam_index:
> Input/output error vacuumdb: vacuum evolvo failed
>
> Could this be a physical I/O error?

Most likely yes. Check your syslogs for kernel i/o error messages.

-Doug
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