German Becker wrote: > Just in case there are some errors in my first email, where it says "after deleting the context of the > same big table" It should say "after deleting de contents of the same big table" I essence what i did > is > > DELETE from table; > VACUUM table; > > And I got the error >> I am testing version 9.1.9 before putting it in production. One of my tests involved deleting a the >> contents of a big table ( ~ 13 GB size) and then VACUUMing it. During VACUUM PANICS. Here is the >> message: >> >> PANIC: corrupted item pointer: offset = 8128, size = 80 Sorry for misunderstanding you. A DELETE should definitely not cause such an error. Can you provide a reproducible test case? Is that a new database or could it be some prior corruption? Yours, Laurenz Albe -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin