> Further to my problem: I've run the vacuum in a backend under the debugger and
> at least figured out in which
> loop the zillions of files are created. It is in md.c. In the stack trace
> below, you can see that blockno has got a totally stupid value and in the loop
> in lines 1049-1063 in md.c (v 6.5.3. sources) it opens zillions of files. If
> anybody knows where this comes from I'd appreciate it. In the meantime I'll
> try to dig a bit further.
Were you the person I told to use pg_upgrade and re-initdb your
database? If not, I would recommend that as the fix. You may need to
re-enable pg_upgrade by editing the script.
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