Hello Postgres general
We're experiencing a lot of errors when using CDash on PostgreSQL 9.1, hosted on Mac OSX 10.6.8. The actual error message is as follows:
SQL error in Cannot insert test: utility/asserter/assert_file_returns_true_for_empty_files into the database():ERROR: failed to add old item to the right sibling while splitting block 191 of index "crc323"<br>
After some investigation, it appears the error is coming from the guts of Postgres: src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtinsert.c:1077:
if (!_bt_pgaddtup(rightpage, itemsz, item, rightoff))
{
memset(rightpage, 0, BufferGetPageSize(rbuf));
elog(ERROR, "failed to add old item to the right sibling"
" while splitting block %u of index \"%s\"",
origpagenumber, RelationGetRelationName(rel));
}
rightoff = OffsetNumberNext(rightoff);
I'm a bit stuck from here on. Is the likely reason for this problem filesystem corruption or am I barking at the wrong tree?
Many thanks for your time.
Marco
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