Thread: index file corrupted

index file corrupted

From
Wenzhe Zhou
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One of my index file is corrupted, that cause insertion failed when insert record to the table with error message
"ERROR: Index pk_mytest is not a btree". After reindex, everything is fine. 

My question is how this happen? Is there any way to prevent it happen? Is there any tool to detect the corrupted data
file?
I run Postgres 7.2.4 on Linux.

Thanks in advance.

Wenzhe