Noticed this in one of my pg logs last Friday: LOG: could not fsync segment 0 of relation 1663/16387/22359: Input/output error ERROR: storage sync failed on magnetic disk: Input/output error This relation corresponds to a table, which receives thousands of inserts via COPY every couple of minutes. I've not noticed that message before now, nor since then. # select version(); PostgreSQL 8.1beta3 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13) uname -a Linux dev12 2.6.11-1-686-smp #1 SMP Mon Jun 20 20:18:45 MDT 2005 i686 GNU/Linux 6 disk SCSI, hardware RAID 5 Any ideas on what could have caused this etc? -- _______________________________ This e-mail may be privileged and/or confidential, and the sender does not waive any related rights and obligations. Any distribution, use or copying of this e-mail or the information it contains by other than an intended recipient is unauthorized. If you received this e-mail in error, please advise me (by return e-mail or otherwise) immediately. _______________________________ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match