I recall that this was due to a corrupted B-Tree index. Try dropping and
rebuilding that, if you have one.
I also recall that Bruce, this being his "favourite error message", wanted
to make it "show it more often", so perhaps it now comes up in different
situations as well. ;)
-Peter
On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, Theo Kramer wrote:
> This message appeared from the backend when running vacuum
> analyze on our live data. I remember seeing a posting
> regarding this sometime back but no longer have this message.
>
> The version of postgres is 6.5.1 on RH6. There is more than
> sufficient disk space left, and postmaster does not seem
> to be running out of memory.
>
> Any help would be much appreciated.
>
> --------
> Regards
> Theo
>
> ************
>
>
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