Re: Database corruption.

> Hmm, that makes it sound like a plain old data-corruption problem, ie,
> trashed xmin or xmax in some tuple header.  Can you do a "select
> count(*)" from this table without getting the error?
>
>
no,  select count(*) fails around 25 millions rows.
>>> PostgreSQL 8.1RC1 on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc
>>> (GCC) 4.0.1
>>>
>
> [ raised eyebrow... ]  You're keeping important data in an RC version
> that you've not updated for more than a year?  Your faith in Postgres'
> code quality is touching, but I'd counsel getting onto a more recent
> release.
>
>

>             regards, tom lane
>