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From: Joshua Marsh <icub3d@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: ERROR: could not read block
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 17:02:24 -0700
Message-ID: <38242de90511141602v6a97e2a8r7992991f0b04577f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1132011827.3582.18.camel@state.g2switchworks.com>
References: <4378C76502000025000006AE@gwmta.wicourts.gov>
	<1132011827.3582.18.camel@state.g2switchworks.com>

On 11/14/05, Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@g2switchworks.com> wrote:

> If you were running on top of a RAID 1+0 or RAID 5 array, such an error
> would likely never have happened, since it would have been detected by
> the controller, and either the bad block would be mapped out or the
> drive would be kicked out of the array and you'd get a system alert
> telling you you had a bad drive in your array.
>
>
Except that he jus said he was running on a RAID5. True this problem would
be unlikely on a hardware controlled RAID5 configuration, but not
impossible.

Does the log file tell you anymore information?

Have you tried to rerun the query? If so, did you get similar results?

-Josh

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