Re: fdatasync failed, I/O error

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Brusser, Michael" <Michael(dot)Brusser(at)matrixone(dot)com>
Cc: "'Pgsql-Hackers'" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: fdatasync failed, I/O error
Date: 2005-06-01 14:44:30
Message-ID: 13942.1117637070@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Brusser, Michael" <Michael(dot)Brusser(at)matrixone(dot)com> writes:
> Our customer is running Postgresql v. 7.3.4 on Linux(Redhat 3.0 Ent.)
> The application crashed and I am trying to understand what could have caused
> this kind of problems:

> fdatasync of log file 0, segment 2 failed: input/output error
> PGSTAT: Error closing temp stats file
> .../.../postgresql/global/pgstat.tmp.10278: Input/output error

"input/output error" definitely means a hardware problem ... you might
try looking in the kernel logs (/var/log/messages) to see if any
additional information got recorded there.

regards, tom lane

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