On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 15:31 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Brad Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > We just took a test database down (PG 8.1.11) fairly hard (pulled a SAN
> It could be that but not necessarily. These could be pages that were > allocated to put new tuples into, but the crash happened before the > inserting transaction committed (and, in fact, before any of the > associated WAL entries had made their way to disk -- else the empty > pages would've been initialized during WAL replay). > > It would be easier to believe that if the uninitialized pages were all > contiguous though. Do you know that this table was under heavy insert > load at the time? It was. This table is an insert only log table that was being heavily was being heavily written to at the time of the crash. Brad. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
