Re: page x is unitialized - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Michael Guerin
Subject Re: page x is unitialized
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Msg-id 40D09FAC.2060708@rentec.com
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In response to Re: page x is unitialized  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:

>Michael Guerin <guerin@rentec.com> writes:
>
>
>>Is this message the sign of trouble, or is it harmless?
>>
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>
>It's not good.  The least bad explanation is that you had a system crash
>recently that occurred between extending a table by one page and filling
>that page with useful data.  (The page is filled with zeroes on creation.)
>If you haven't had any crashes lately then I'd wonder about whether your
>disk is dropping data.
>
>            regards, tom lane
>
>
Could this lead to the invalid page header problems that I've been
having lately?

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