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From: jaws@pangaea.dme.nt.gov.au (James Woods 61-89-895256)
Subject: block write errors
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I have an application doing large object transactions and while creating and
writing a large object I occasionally get an error for the form:

cannot write block #(usually 0 or 16) of something_strange [db_name] blind

This error is generated from smgrblindwrt() in src/backend/storage/smgr/smgr.c
This error is not happening very frequently but as we are doing a lot of bulk
data input at the moment it is happening frequently enough to cause problems.

ref:
postgres 4.1
Sun sparc/ SunOS 4.1.2
Inversion large objects accessed through libpq calls

any help will be much appreciated
James Woods
jaws@pangaea.dme.nt.gov.au