On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-11-09 at 22:49 +0000, daniel@heroku.com wrote:
>> PGError: ERROR: could not read block 556642 in file "base/16385/2904143.4":
>> read only 0 of 8192
>
> Does that seem wildly off to you, or a little off? Do you think that
> block may have existed in the past, but was truncated by a VACUUM or
> something?
A little off. I think that Tom Lane posted a pretty good mechanism in
-hackers: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2012-11/msg00409.php
> Just to clarify, that file belongs to the index in question, right? It's
> not the heap pointed to by the index?
Yes.
>> Immediately thereafter, no occurrences of the error resurfaced and any
>> attempts to reproduce the issue with an identical query were met with
>> failure.
>
> Or a lack of failure, I presume.
Yup.
>> This is reading from a 9.0.8 Postgres.
>
> Any indication whether it's present on other versions or does it appear
> to be isolated to 9.0.X?
This is the only known occurrence to me, ever, but given it's
incredibly ephemeral nature probably glossed over most of the time, I
can't say "it's the only time it's ever happened".
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fdr