Re: [GENERAL] More details on Database corruption

> > The problem is that the DEFAULT string is
> > not the same length as the column.  Anyone know how to fix this?
>
> I can put this on my list of things to look at, but I'm not sure why
> this is causing the backend to crash. Is is a problem with storage
> allocation when updating columns? Or is it a problem with storage which
> is already corrupted by the zero-length default character strings?? I
> would think that the default string is not looked at during the update,
> so the damage happened during the initial insert, right?

It is an Assert which is saying, 'If it is a fixed-length field, it
better have the same length.'

Do you want the backtrace line?

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