same employee table (but after initdb, and restored from fridays dump)
how can i find out the correct length of the tuples?
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Martijn van Oosterhout" <kleptog@svana.org>
To: "Henrik Steffen" <steffen@city-map.de>
Cc: <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 11:27 AM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Serious Crash last Friday
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 10:39:21AM +0200, Henrik Steffen wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > trying pgfsck on my corrupted employee table from friday it gave me
about 85
> > lines complaining
> > about "Tuple incorrect length (parsed data=xxxxxx, length=xxx)"
> >
> > the table had 184 rows, out of which 85 were corrupt ??
>
> Hmm, it depends mostly on whether the parsed was greater or less than the
> length. If it's less than it is something to do with additional padding
> being added at the end, which I havn't worked out yet. I'm thinking of
> supressing the warning where the remaining looks like padding.
>
> If it's greater, there is a problem.
>
> > trying pgfsck on the current employee table of today (after new initdb
etc.)
> > with 184 rows,
> > I get 814 (!!) rows complaining about "Tuple incorrect length ..." - how
can
> > this be???
>
> Same or different tables?
> --
> Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> > There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that can do binary
> > arithmetic and those that can't.