Re: ERROR: Index pg_toast_8443892_index is not a btree - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jan Wieck
Subject Re: ERROR: Index pg_toast_8443892_index is not a btree
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Msg-id 3FD73C0E.10802@Yahoo.com
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In response to Re: ERROR: Index pg_toast_8443892_index is not a btree  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:

> strk <strk@keybit.net> writes:
>> The question now is: what does that message mean ?
> 
> It means that the "magic number" that should be on the first page of the
> btree index isn't right.  We can deduce that something has clobbered the
> first page of the index, but guessing what and how requires much more
> information.

Clobbered or truncated. A zero size index file causes the same message.


Jan

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