Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: XX001: could not read block 2354 of relation…

2009/3/31 Patrick Desjardins <mrdesjardins(at)gmail(dot)com>:
> Hi,
>
> I have the error ERROR: XX001: could not read block 2354 of relation
> 1663/17633/17925: read only 0 of 8192 bytes, but only sometime, when trying
> to Insert data into a table. I would say that 99% of Insert works and 100%
> of read works. This is only happenning since few weeks. I have done Vaccum
> Analyze without any success (the vaccum take 65 minutes but nothing is
> fixed, still have the ERROR XXX001). I have this error in the backend
> application and when I do some Insert Query in the PgAdmin tool.
>

This kind of error occurs generally on 7.x versions or if you are using
fsync =off and you have a surprised system down.

Try to do a pg_dump of the database or clean (no delete) del wal files
(this is not
recommendable for new users).

> What can I do to fix that problem?
>
> Thank you,
>

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