People,

I got my first FB DB corrupted :-)

Maybe you wonder why I put a smile, this is because it was "expected".

I was doing some intensive DB operation, summing values with a
denormalized table, and stores some totals.

I turned Forced Writes Off (too make it a bit faster), and I am using
WinXP. :o)

For a bunch of times I killed the FB Server because the query was taking
too much time, and take another approach.

Yes I know I was with rope on my neck and trying to stay on the top of a
ball dancing macarena, sonner or later I will fall.

I am not worried because I have a backup, the process are running
isolated on my notebook, and no data loss happened.

I just want to know what does the error message means:

I got the error when I do a select * from one table or when I try to
backup it, gfix -validate does not output anything (positive or negative).

gbak: ERROR: internal gds software consistency check (pointer page
disappeared in DPM_delete (245))
gbak: ERROR: gds_$receive failed
gbak: Exiting before completion due to errors
gbak: ERROR: internal gds software consistency check (can't continue
after bugcheck)

see you !

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Alexandre Benson Smith
Development
THOR Software e Comercial Ltda.
Santo Andre - Sao Paulo - Brazil
www.thorsoftware.com.br