Re: postmaster segfault when using SELECT on a table

From: Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)Sun(dot)COM>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Karsten Desler <kd(at)link11(dot)de>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: postmaster segfault when using SELECT on a table
Date: 2008-04-28 11:31:20
Message-ID: 4815B588.5090502@sun.com
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Tom Lane wrote:
> My suspicion though is that you'll find that a large portion of that
> page is damaged; that's usually what we've seen in such cases in the
> past.

I think, It can happen only if corruption is less then TOAST chunk size. In
other case, page header or tuple header+chunk id should be corrupted and it
should be reported in another place.

Zdenek

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