"Gregory S. Williamson" <gsw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> 2006-09-26 10:02:15.124 PDT 1387333718 ERROR: could not open segment 1 of >> relation 1663/43801/7274801 (target block 478216192): No such file or >> directory This is most likely caused by trying to follow a bogus item pointer in an index. If the problem went away after a restart, the bogus value could not have been on disk but must have been in a bad in-memory copy of an index page. Which suggests a hardware glitch ... although if you are using contrib/ltree, I recall seeing several bug fixes go by recently that were described as fixing potential ltree-index corruption issues. regards, tom lane