Re: Partially corrupted table

From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
To: Filip Hrbek <filip(dot)hrbek(at)plz(dot)comstar(dot)cz>
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: Partially corrupted table
Date: 2006-08-30 19:40:40
Message-ID: 20060830194040.GA6038@wolff.to
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On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 10:18:46 +0200,
Filip Hrbek <filip(dot)hrbek(at)plz(dot)comstar(dot)cz> wrote:
>
> It is possible that the corruption was caused by a HW problem at customer's
> server, and then this problem appeared also at our development environment
> because of the data already beeing corrupted. I will recommend the customer
> to make some memory tests.

You might also ask them if they are using ECC memory. A single bit flip
could have easily happened with good memory that didn't have error correction.

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