Re: Still trouble reindexing

gosh, this night there was a new error message:

DBD::Pg::st execute failed: ERROR: tuplesort: unexpected end of data [for
statement ``REINDEX TABLE tage200307''])

...starting to believe that this is a hardware error...

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Henrik Steffen" <steffen(at)city-map(dot)de>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "pgsql" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 12:26 PM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Still trouble reindexing

> hi tom,
>
> the table consists of a unique char(9) column
> with about 250.000 rows, and some integer columns.
>
> it was not possible to dump the table nor
> to drop and recreate the index (same error
> as reindex)
>
> it was not even possible to insert into newtable select * from table
>
> the copy command delivered only about 100.000 rows
> and stopped then with an error.
>
> i then tried to
> select from table where kundennummer like '01%' order by kundennummer;
> which worked fine, however
> select from table where kundennummer like '14%' order by kundennummer;
> did run into an error
>
> so I tried to come closer to the error adding more and more numbers
> to the like-part. leading to kundennummer like '14010157%', which
> I then deleted. I lost only 9 rows. Better then 250.000 rows.
>
> then everything worked fine again.
>
> guess postgres saved some invalid data into these particular rows.
>
> shouldn't it be necessary to prevent postgres from inserting
> a 536870936 bytes long value in to a 8192 byte column?
>
> I am not sure if this (again) is a hardware issue...
>
>
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> Mit freundlichem Gruß
>
> Henrik Steffen
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>
> top concepts Internetmarketing GmbH
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
> To: "Henrik Steffen" <steffen(at)city-map(dot)de>
> Cc: "pgsql" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 8:57 AM
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Still trouble reindexing
>
>
> > "Henrik Steffen" <steffen(at)city-map(dot)de> writes:
> > > this night I got the following error message while
> > > reindexing the same table that hat non-unique values
> > > the last days:
> >
> > > DBD::Pg::st execute failed:
> > > ERROR: index_formtuple: data takes 536870936 bytes, max is 8191 [for
> > > statement ``REINDEX TABLE kundenstatistik''])
> >
> > > Any hint what that could mean?
> >
> > Ugh :-( ... looks like corrupt data to me, specifically a bad length
> > word in a variable-length field. Have you checked your disk hardware
> > lately?
> >
> > regards, tom lane
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