Re: Unexpected data beyond EOF during heavy writes

Excerpts from Tony Sullivan's message of jue may 20 16:54:17 -0400 2010:
> > Hello everyone,
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> > We are seeing the following error message occasionally in the postgres logs:
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> > 2010-05-13 23:49:03 PDT ERROR: unexpected data beyond EOF in block 4106698 of relation "custom_discoveryprofile"
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> > 2010-05-13 23:49:03 PDT HINT: This has been seen to occur with buggy kernels; consider updating your system.
> 
> What's your storage?

This was added here
http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/20060925220110.76B6A9FB251@postgresql.org
in response to these two:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.postgresql.admin/18807
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.postgresql.general/74532

We (at Command Prompt) researched this recently for another setup and
the common point you both have is NetApp.  I then wondered about a bug
in NetApp driver or NFS client implementation.

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