Devrim =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=DCND=DCZ?= <devrim@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I recently started seeing the following in the logs: > ERROR: could not read block 46 of relation > pg_tblspc/16385/8578554/11521501: Input/output error > CONTEXT: automatic vacuum of table "foo.pg_toast.pg_toast_8578780" > Is this *definitely* a disk error, or could it be related to PostgreSQL > itself? "Input/output error" is pretty much always indicative of a hardware problem. If it's always associated with attempts to access a specific disk block then it's definitely a bad-sector error. There might be more details in the kernel log. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general