Re: buffer overflow (I'm getting it too!) - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Stephan Szabo
Subject Re: buffer overflow (I'm getting it too!)
Date
Msg-id Pine.BSF.4.21.0110080858240.77847-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com
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In response to Re: buffer overflow (I'm getting it too!)  ("Nick Fankhauser" <nickf@ontko.com>)
List pgsql-admin
On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Nick Fankhauser wrote:

> I have no answer to this, but I'll add my experience to the question.
>
> I'm getting the same message, but in my case it is not consistent. It is
> always during a cron job that does a vacuum analyze in the middle of the
> night, but not every time the job runs. If I do the same thing interactively
> (the vacuum/analyze), I don't get the message, so I only see the messages
> about once a week & can't reproduce the problem reliably.
>
> It doesn't appear that anything is "broken" when we get this message-
> everything keeps running well.

They should be safe (mostly a debugging message).  IIRC, there were
known bugs in earlier versions that happened on the reset, but that these
were fixed and noone has found any since but the messages were still
there. They're getting downgraded from NOTICE to DEBUG in 7.2 I think.




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