Tom Lane wrote: > The cases I've been able to study look like the header and a lot of the > following page data have been overwritten with garbage --- when it made > any sense at all, it looked like the contents of non-Postgres files (eg, > plain text), which is why I mentioned the possibility of disks writing > data to the wrong sector.
That also sounds suspiciously like the behavior of certain filesystems (Reiserfs, for one) after a crash when the filesystem prior to the crash was highly active with writes. Had the sites that reported this experienced OS crashes or power interruptions? -- Kevin Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
