Re: page is uninitialized?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Brendan Duddridge <brendan(at)clickspace(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-general General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: page is uninitialized?
Date: 2006-04-19 15:02:11
Message-ID: 26215.1145458931@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Brendan Duddridge <brendan(at)clickspace(dot)com> writes:
> I was doing a vacuum analyze verbose on my database today and I
> noticed the following message printed out:

> WARNING: relation "category_product" page 128979 is uninitialized
> --- fixing
> WARNING: relation "category_product" page 128980 is uninitialized
> --- fixing
> ...

There are some situations in which this is expected, which is why
VACUUM deals with it, but none of them are very good: they involve
backends adding a page to a table and then failing before they can
write a WAL record about initializing the page. Have you had any
crashes recently?

regards, tom lane

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