On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > "Scott Marlowe" <scott.marlowe@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 8:48 AM, Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> The server was rebooting intermittently, so we replaced the RAM (we got a >>> kernel page fault). But it was a week ago. The server is now stable. But is >>> it possible that somehow the file system became inconsistent, and that is >>> causing an infinite loop in the stats collector? Just guessing. > >> Yes, you really can't trust any data that was written to the drives >> while the bad memory was in place. > > Still, it's quite unclear how bad data read from the stats file could > have led to an infinite loop. The stats file format is pretty "flat" > and AFAICS the worst effect of undetected corruption would be to have > wrong count values for some tables/databases. True. Is it possible some other bit of the data in the system was corrupted and freaking out the stats collector? -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
