Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 2.6.5-7.244 looks like an older SLES kernel which makes this bug > suspicially look like one we got reported a while ago: > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-admin/2006-09/msg00092.php > and toms analysis: > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-09/msg01899.php Just for context: the error message you are seeing is the one I added pursuant to the second message above. If you'd been running this with an older PG version, you'd have been experiencing silent data loss instead of the error :-( regards, tom lane