On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 16:19, Geoffrey wrote:
> Geoffrey wrote:
> > We had a vacuum fail recently with the following error:
> >
> > invalid page header in block 846 of relation "move_pkey"
> >
> > Anyone have an idea what could cause this problem and what we need to do
> > to resolve it?
> >
> > Running on Red Hat Enterprise 3, postgres 7.4.13
>
> Regarding the issue above, is it possible that re-indexing the database
> could resolve the problem, since the error is related to an index.
> move_pkey is an index on field recid.
Yes, reindex might fix it.
But more than likely there's a problem with your hardware somewhere, and
it needs to be checked out carefully for problems. i.e. bad hard drive,
memory, cpu, etc...
