In general, I have seen no one complain about data integrity on this list unless
their hardware was bad. Search the arhives at:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/
under databases, postgres, for disk test and ram test software. Then test.
Chris Smith wrote:
> I posted about this earlier and got no response, but now it's happening
> again. Can someone please help?
>
> We're getting the following error message from PostgreSQL 7.3.2:
>
> ERROR: unexpected chunk number 1 (expected 0) for toast value 77579
>
> This error occurs whenever I attempt to SELECT the contents of a bytea field
> from this particular record. It has also occurred in the past, and appears
> to happen somewhat randomly among records. It does not appear to be related
> to the content of the data inserted into the database, because we've been
> able to retrieve the same actual contents successfully in other records.
>
> The INSERT and UPDATE to add the record and set the contents field work
> fine.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas on what I can try to solve this problem? I can
> put in a number of retries, I suppose, but that seems pretty kludgy.
>
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