Re: I/O error during autovacuum

On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 18:47 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Is this *definitely* a disk error, or could it be related to
> PostgreSQL
> > itself?
>
> "Input/output error" is pretty much always indicative of a hardware
> problem. If it's always associated with attempts to access a specific
> disk block then it's definitely a bad-sector error. T

Thanks. I just wanted to make sure that I did not hit a PostgreSQL bug.

> There might be more details in the kernel log.

That is another part that confuses me. cciss driver *may* report false
positives under some circumstances, per a bug report that I saw at
bugzilla (I cannot remember bz id right now). That's why I asked to
list, too.

Regards,
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