Originally Posted by
MSPeconomist
I assume this was just a timing issue, with my post having been submitted just before some weird instantaneous data base problem. Then when FT tried to show me the last page of the thread with my post, the data base error prevented the page from loading.
Close, no cigar -- a "database error" with vBulletin almost always means a failure to connect to the backend database (MySQL) server and not an error in the database itself. Just keep retrying occasionally until it works, then check for double posts.
I saw hundreds (maybe thousands) of them when I ran several vBulletin sites, never actually had a corrupted database.