Re: error during vacuum full

Tom,

> Good.  I am dead tired and am about to go to bed, but if you can
> reproduce with a debuggable build then I would definitely like to
> crawl into it tomorrow.

Good night.  We can pick this up tomorrow.

> At this point I do not have the faintest idea what might cause the
> problem to go away, so if possible I'd urge you to do the minimum
> possible work on the system overnight.  Alternatively, if you can
> spare the disk space, make a tarball copy of the whole $PGDATA
> tree while you have the postmaster shut down.  Then we can
> study the problem offline without worrying about your live
> application.

I need the app up and running, but I did shut it down and created a backup of the entire directory as you suggested.  

thanks,
--Barry




Tom Lane wrote:

>Barry Lind <barry@xythos.com> writes:
>  
>
>>No.  Restarting the postmaster does not resolve the problem.
>>    
>>
>
>Now you've got my attention ;-) ... this is completely at variance
>with my theories about the cause of the problem.  Destruction of
>a theory is usually a sign of impending advance.
>
>  
>
>>I am going 
>>to put the debug build in place and see if I can still reproduce.
>>    
>>
>
>Good.  I am dead tired and am about to go to bed, but if you can
>reproduce with a debuggable build then I would definitely like to
>crawl into it tomorrow.
>
>At this point I do not have the faintest idea what might cause the
>problem to go away, so if possible I'd urge you to do the minimum
>possible work on the system overnight.  Alternatively, if you can
>spare the disk space, make a tarball copy of the whole $PGDATA
>tree while you have the postmaster shut down.  Then we can
>study the problem offline without worrying about your live
>application.
>
>            regards, tom lane
>
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