Re: fdatasync failed, I/O error - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: fdatasync failed, I/O error
Date
Msg-id 20050601145138.GB24334@surnet.cl
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In response to fdatasync failed, I/O error  ("Brusser, Michael" <Michael.Brusser@matrixone.com>)
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On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 10:27:04AM -0400, Brusser, Michael wrote:
> 
> Our customer is running Postgresql v. 7.3.4 on Linux(Redhat 3.0 Ent.)
> The application crashed and I am trying to understand what could have caused
> this kind of problems:
> 
>    fdatasync of log file 0, segment 2 failed: input/output error
>    PGSTAT: Error closing temp stats file 
>       .../.../postgresql/global/pgstat.tmp.10278: Input/output error
> 
> I suppose they could be using NFS (I know, I know... we have to deal with
> that. But could it be something else? A bad disk?)

Bad disk, bad controller, bad cable between the two, are some which come
to mind.

-- 
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]surnet.cl>)
"The Gord often wonders why people threaten never to come back after they've
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