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From Christoph Berg
Subject Re: Better HINT message for "unexpected data beyond EOF"
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In response to Re: Better HINT message for "unexpected data beyond EOF"  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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Re: Robert Haas
> I think that would be better than what we have now, but I still wonder
> if we should give some kind of a hint that an external process may be
> doing something to that file. Jakub and I may be biased by having just
> seen a case of exactly that in the field, but I wonder now how many
> 'data beyond EOF' messages are exactly that -- and it's not like the
> user is going to guess that 'data beyond EOF' might mean that such a
> thing occurred.

HINT:  Did anything besides PostgreSQL touch that file?

Christoph

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