| From: | Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com> |
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| To: | Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, strk <strk(at)keybit(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: ERROR: Index pg_toast_8443892_index is not a btree |
| Date: | 2003-12-10 01:19:39 |
| Message-ID: | 3FD674AB.5070707@Yahoo.com |
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Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
>> I couldn't agree more. Look at this very instance. He now found the
>> right reindex command and the corrupted file is gone. We don't have the
>> slightest clue what happened to that file. Was it truncated? Did some
>> other process scribble around in the shared memory? How do you tell now?
>
> The end user just could not care less. They want their machine running
> again as soon as is humanly possible without going through a back and
> forth process of subscribing to some lists they don't care about, etc.
I know, that's (unfortunately) true. Although it's not very farsighted
because better bug reports usually lead to better software in the next
release.
Jan
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