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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: "Could not read block" during vacuum
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Msg-id 1821.1113769923@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to "Could not read block" during vacuum  (jao@geophile.com)
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jao@geophile.com writes:
>     2005-04-16 00:00:53 ERROR:  could not read block 52 of
>     relation "idx_ef_hash": Input/output error

> Googling didn't turn up useful information on this problem. Can anyone
> tell me whether this error indicates a disk problem, OS problem, known
> postgres bug, or something else? We've only seen this occur once.

Hardware problem ... probably the disk, but could be disk interface.

            regards, tom lane

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