Tom Lane írta: > Zoltan Boszormenyi <zb@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> The realtime trace I captured from the hung INSERT shows that it >> enters two functions repeatedly: _bt_relandgetbuf() and _bt_compare(). >> The pattern in which these functions entered match either _bt_moveright() or >> _bt_insertonpg(). >> > > What that sounds like to me is a corrupt index (infinite loop of > right-links, perhaps). Have you tried REINDEXing the table? > > regards, tom lane > No, TRUNCATE was faster because there were no live records in the table. How can such an infinite loop sneak into an index? Hardware is from Sun, not a grocery store PC, so I don't suppose it to be faulty. Is there anything in the 8.0.x series that fixes this (or a similar) bug? If I could point to something in the release notes, I may get them to upgrade and they may upgrade to a newer generation even. Thanks. -- ---------------------------------- Zoltán Böszörményi Cybertec Schönig & Schönig GmbH http://www.postgresql.at/
