Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc> writes:
> 2.6.5-7.244 looks like an older SLES kernel which makes this bug
> suspicially look like one we got reported a while ago:
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-admin/2006-09/msg00092.php
> and toms analysis:
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-09/msg01899.php
Just for context: the error message you are seeing is the one I added
pursuant to the second message above. If you'd been running this with
an older PG version, you'd have been experiencing silent data loss
instead of the error :-(
regards, tom lane