On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 8:57 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com> writes:
>>>> I've got a problem with pg 8.4.4 crashing with a sig 6 abort due to a
>>>> panic on failing to add a right sibling in an index. Log output:
>>>
>>>> PANIC: failed to add item to the right sibling in index "logged_in_uid"
>>>> STATEMENT: INSERT INTO logged_in ...
>>>
>>> If you can apply this patch:
>>> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2010-08/msg00365.php
>>> it should tell you which index page is causing the problem. Then
>>> please dump that page with pg_filedump and send it in.
>>
>> Patch applied. This crash happens on average about once a day.
>> Happened twice yesterday, but hasn't happened today. I'll report back
>> when / if it does it again.
>
> OK, got an error on it today. Looks like a corrupted index. Note
> that this is on a machine that was very well tested, but who knows, a
> single bit error could have occurred. pg_filedump attached.
P.s. I reindexed it to get rid of the error. I'll keep an eye for it
coming back.
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