Re: Problems with Large Objects using Postgres 7.2.1 - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Problems with Large Objects using Postgres 7.2.1
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Msg-id 8263.1049907061@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Problems with Large Objects using Postgres 7.2.1  ("Chris White" <cjwhite@cisco.com>)
Responses Re: Problems with Large Objects using Postgres 7.2.1  ("Chris White" <cjwhite@cisco.com>)
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"Chris White" <cjwhite@cisco.com> writes:
>   What I am seeing is that when all 8 threads are running and the system is
> shutdown, large objects committed in transactions near to the shutdown are
> corrupt when the database is restarted. I know the large objects are
> committed, because the associated entries in the tables which point to the
> large objects are present after the restart with valid information about the
> large object length and oid. However when I access the large objects I am
> only returned a 2K chunk even though the table entry tells me the entry
> should be 320K.

Hmm.  Have you tried looking directly into pg_largeobject to see what
row(s) are present for the particular LO ID?  Is the data that's there
valid?

>   Anybody have any ideas what is the problem? Are there any know issues with
> the recovery of large objects?

No, news to me.  I would suggest that you should be running 7.2.4, not
7.2.1; we don't make dot-releases just to keep busy.  But offhand I
don't know of any recent reports of symptoms like this.

            regards, tom lane


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