"Wyatt Tellis" <wtellis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> I'm running 8.1.4 on W2K3 R2. I occasionally get errors of the type: >> ERROR: could not open relation 1663/856689/856777: Invalid argument > Is there a command or way to determine if an index is corrupt? Is there > anyway to discern this info from the error message itself (i.e. are the > numbers a pointer to a specific index)? 856689 references a database OID (try "select datname from pg_database where oid = 856689") and then 856777 is a relfilenode (in that database, do "select relname from pg_class where relfilenode = 856777"). As for what "Invalid argument" on a file open might mean, my personal advice is to get a real operating system. W2K is by far the weakest link in your platform. regards, tom lane