Thread: new AM, best way to obtain new block at end of index?

Hi list,

currently I am obtaining a new block at the end of an index with:

buf = ReadBuffer(rel, P_NEW);

but it throws:

ERROR:  unexpected data beyond EOF in block 0 of relation base/11874/156053
HINT:  This has been seen to occur with buggy kernels; consider updating
your system.

system is up to date:
$ uname -r
2.6.35-28-generic

Is there another way to do it? What could be the source of the problem?

Yves

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Yves Weißig
<weissig@rbg.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> currently I am obtaining a new block at the end of an index with:
>
> buf = ReadBuffer(rel, P_NEW);
>
> but it throws:
>
> ERROR:  unexpected data beyond EOF in block 0 of relation base/11874/156053
> HINT:  This has been seen to occur with buggy kernels; consider updating
> your system.
>
> system is up to date:
> $ uname -r
> 2.6.35-28-generic
>
> Is there another way to do it? What could be the source of the problem?

Sounds like a bug either in your code, or in the kernel.  That's the
right way to do it.

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