On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:32:46 +0000
Sam Mason <s...@samason.me.uk> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 09:00:53AM +0100, Bjørn T Johansen wrote:
> > ERROR:  index "connect_idx" contains unexpected zero page at block 208
> > HINT:  Please REINDEX it.
> > 
> > What does this mean?
> 
> It means something bad has happened to an index.  If you're running
> an old version of PG then you may be affected by a known bug or you
> could have bad hardware.  Did the computer have its power turned off
> unexpectedly, as if things are set up right then this could affect
> things.

Not any power problem but had a disk problem; guess that might be the cause...
> 
> I've just had a quick search and you seemed to be running 8.3.5 before,
> there don't seem to be any index related changes since then so maybe
> your hardware isn't doing what it's told to!

Almost correct... I am running 8.3.6 now... :)

> 
> > And how do I reindex it?
> 
> Just type:
> 
>   REINDEX connect_idx;
> 
> in psql.
> 

Thx, did that and now the error message is gone...


BTJ

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