Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Markus Wollny wrote: > > magazine=# vacuum analyze pcaction.article; > > PANIC: corrupted item pointer: 5 > > server closed the connection unexpectedly > > This probably means the server terminated abnormally > > before or while processing the request. > > The connection to the server was lost. Attempting reset: Failed. > > This error comes from this piece of PageRepairFragmentation: > if (itemidptr->itemoff < (int) pd_upper || > itemidptr->itemoff >= (int) pd_special) > ereport(ERROR, > (errcode(ERRCODE_DATA_CORRUPTED), > errmsg("corrupted item pointer: %u", > itemidptr->itemoff))); I forgot to mention that this ERROR is promoted to PANIC by the critical section defined in lazy_vacuum_page(). -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general