On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Krok wrote:
> void=> select max(length(passwd)) from users;
> max
> -----------
> 536870919
> (1 row)
....
>
> But how can this happen, that varchar(255) field became broken ?
>
According to my caclulator, in hex this is 0x20000007
so there's likely a bit flip if the length is actually stored
so ( i don't know the internals yet )
I'd be worried about hardware and more importantly about data
consistency at this point. I would suggest running manufacturer's
test suites or something similar on this machine.
(memtest on x86 would be good, copying some .iso's around and
checksumming them in between was a good way for me to ask
a replacement machine once)
Andre