Re: could not open relation: Invalid argument

On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 10:12:55PM -0500, Jaime Casanova wrote:
> On Jan 14, 2008 11:03 AM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> > Roberts, Jon wrote:
> > > Version: PostgreSQL 8.2.5 on i686-pc-mingw32
> > >
> > > I recently started getting this error message randomly, "could not open
> > > relation 42904/42906/42985: Invalid argument".  I also got it for a couple
> > > of other files.  All three files are related to tables that have just a
> > > single row each.
> >
> > This has been reported before, and we've patched the system so that the
> > error reported is better.  In HEAD we also patched it so that the system
> > would automatically retry a number of times if the problem is
> > ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION (or something like that).  That patch was not
> > backported to 8.2 due to lack of testing -- the original reported did
> > not come back to try the patched version.
> >
> > If you want to try, the patch is here:
> > https://projects.commandprompt.com/public/pgsql/changeset/29853
> >
> > Let us know how it goes.  If your problem is easily reproducible and the
> > patch makes it go away, we would consider back-patching the fix.
> >
> 
> I have builded a patched version of 8.2, if you want i can send it to you...
> if your mail server doesn't accept large files (the zip file is 5.6
> mb) then maybe someone can share some space for temporarily store
> it...

Sure, I can do that.

//Magnus