Re: Corruption of files in PostgreSQL

Paolo Bizzarri wrote:
> We use postgres as a backend, and we are experimenting some corruption
> problems on openoffice files.

1. How are you storing these files?
2. What is the nature of the corruption?

> As our application is rather complex (it includes Zope as an
> application server, OpenOffice as a document server and as a client)
> we need some info on how to check that we are interacting correctly
> with Postgres.

Shouldn't matter.

> We are currently using:
>
> - PostgreSQL 7.4.8;

Well, you need to upgrade this - version 7.4.17 is the latest in the 7.4
series. You are missing 9 separate batches of bug and security fixes.

> - pyscopg 1.1.11;
> - Zope 2.7.x;
> - Openoffice 2.2.

None of this should matter really, unless there's some subtle bug in
psycopg causing corruption of data in-transit.

Let's get some details on the two questions above and see if there's a
pattern to your problems.

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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd