Re: Error: missing chunk number ...

From: Gavin Sherry <swm(at)linuxworld(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Neophytos Demetriou <k2pts(at)cytanet(dot)com(dot)cy>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Error: missing chunk number ...
Date: 2002-08-05 09:10:22
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.21.0208051909090.30155-100000@linuxworld.com.au
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On Mon, 5 Aug 2002, Neophytos Demetriou wrote:

> >
> >
> >Bizarre. Evidently there's something broken about the TOAST data for
> >your table. I am thinking that the toast table's index might be
> >corrupt, in which case you could probably recover by reindexing that
> >index.
> >
>
> That's it! Doing the following fixed the problem:
>
> ./oid2name -d xxxxx-db -t rss_channels
> Oid of table rss_channels from database "xxxxx-db":
> _______________________________
> 796690 = rss_channels
>
> backend> reindex index pg_toast_796690_idx;
>
> I still don't know what caused this but I'll wait a bit and see how it
> goes -- this was not the first time I had this problem. In the past
> (couple of weeks), I used to drop and recreate the table to resolve this.
>

If you can, run memtest86 on the machine for 24 hours. Probably a hardware
memory problem.

Gavin

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