Whit Armstrong <armstrong.whit@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > getting a few "page xxx is uninitialized --- fixing" warnings in the > vacuum output, but seems like this should be expected since I killed > an insert in progress. Yeah, that isn't too surprising. When a table runs out of space the first thing we do is extend it with zeroed pages, mainly to make sure that the disk space is available. The next thing that will hit disk is WAL records about the insertions, and finally the updated pages themselves (overwriting the zeroes). A forced database crash before the WAL gets written leads to some all-zero pages left behind on disk. They're harmless, and VACUUM knows enough to clean them up and make them useful (but it emits a WARNING just to be chatty). regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
