Stay away from 2.4.15. It had file system problems which were severe
Apart from that the 2.4.17 is reliable.
Never used the 2.4.16
Darren
Darren Ferguson
On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Johnson, Shaunn" <SJohnson6@bcbsm.com> writes:
> > I am running Postgres 7.1 on Mandrake Linux 8.0,
> > kernel version 2.4.16.
>
> Could you upgrade to PG 7.1.3 and see if the problem is still there?
>
> > I am trying to create an index on a table:
> > database=> create index key_i on class (contract, memberid, date)
> > and I get the following error:
> > ERROR: tuplesort: unexpected end of data
>
> Weird. Is it possible you are running out of disk space? (The sort to
> create the index is probably using temporary disk files.) I should
> think that you'd get an error saying that, though, not this error.
>
> If you have lots of disk space, it'd be worth trying to pg_dump the
> table, load it into a newly created database, and see if the error can
> be reproduced on that fresh copy. Knowing whether the error can be
> reproduced outside your existing database would be helpful.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
> PS: does anyone know if there are any serious bugs in Linux 2.4.16?
> I recall hearing about some hasty updates of recent kernels, but am
> not up-to-date on which versions to avoid.
>
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