Re: [GENERAL] Invalid field size

Il 04/07/2017 17:42, Daniel Verite ha scritto:
>     Moreno Andreo wrote:
>
>> As you can see I have 2 bytea fields, blob and thumbnail (the one it
>> seems it's giving the error), but AFAIK the former is never used, so it
>> should be always null.
>> Googling around did not help.
>
> Despite the auto-correction mechanisms in place in modern drives [1],
> the probability of a non-correctable error is not negligible,
> so it's plausible that it's what you're experiencing.
>
> If that's the case and only byte is wrong in the whole file, you could
> theorically fix it by finding the offset of the offending length and patch
> the wrong byte with a 0xff value.
>
>
> [1]
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk_drive#Error_rates_and_handling
>
So if it's the case (hardware error), recalling a new backup should
reproduce the error, right?
When the user comes back from holidays I'll call him and check this.

Thanks
Moreno.