Tom Lane wrote:
> Brad Nicholson <bnichols@ca.afilias.info> writes:
>> It may or may not be the same issue, but for what it's worth, we've seen
>> the same sl_log_1 corruption on AIX 5.1 and 5.3
>
> Hm, on what filesystem, and what PG version(s)?
>
> I'm not completely satisfied by the its-a-kernel-bug theory, because if
> it were then ISTM extending an index would be subject to the same risks
> as extending a table; but I see no evidence of index page lossage in
> Marc's dump. OTOH the usage patterns are different, so maybe PG isn't
> stressing the write-to-lseek path quite as hard for indexes.
>
> regards, tom lane
jfs2 in all cases. I don't recall the PG version for 5.1, but it was
greater that 7.4.8. For 5.3, it was 7.4.12.
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