Tom, I haven't used the ltree module ... I'll take a look at our DB and see. It's possible that this was an index problem as there was a bulk update with indexes in tact, so there would have been a lot of index shuffling, and the db was not shut down since that update. Thanks, Greg -----Original Message----- From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tue 9/26/2006 3:36 PM To: Gregory S. Williamson Cc: Talha Khan; pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Runtime error: could not open segment 1 of relation ... "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 ------------------------------------------------------- Click link below if it is SPAM gsw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "https://mailscanner.globexplorer.com/dspam/dspam.cgi?signatureID=4519aa77100151804284693&user=gsw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&retrain=spam&template=history&history_page=1" !DSPAM:4519aa77100151804284693! -------------------------------------------------------