>
> Obviously the choice of operating system has no impact on the contents of
> your index.
>
> A better question might be, what did your application or maintenance
> procedures do different in the different tests?
>
>
> --
> Alan
Our problem for a long time has been assuming the "obvious". But we
now have tests that show otherwise.
I'm now thinking something along the lines of an obscure file system
or kernel interaction bug now - that was perhaps corrected in newer
releases of the OS.
Now that we can finally reproduce the problem in house, we are still
doing more tests to figure out specifics - does the problem go away
with Postgres 8.3, ext2/ext3/reiserFS, etc.