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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: unexpected data beyond EOF and character encoding
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Msg-id 22378.1175281050@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: unexpected data beyond EOF and character encoding  (Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>)
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Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc> writes:
> 2.6.5-7.244 looks like an older SLES kernel which makes this bug
> suspicially look like one we got reported a while ago:
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-admin/2006-09/msg00092.php
> and toms analysis:
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-09/msg01899.php

Just for context: the error message you are seeing is the one I added
pursuant to the second message above.  If you'd been running this with
an older PG version, you'd have been experiencing silent data loss
instead of the error :-(

            regards, tom lane

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