From: | Scott Marlowe <smarlowe(at)g2switchworks(dot)com> |
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To: | "Silvela, Jaime (Exchange)" <JSilvela(at)Bear(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: pg_statistic corruption and duplicated primary keys |
Date: | 2006-09-01 18:28:50 |
Message-ID: | 1157135330.4786.11.camel@state.g2switchworks.com |
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On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 10:41, Silvela, Jaime (Exchange) wrote:
> Lately my database crashed and I’ve had some strangeness following.
>
> I found that some tables would have two distinct rows with identical
> primary key.
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> Now, VACUUM complains thusly
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> WARNING: index "pg_statistic_relid_att_index" contains 2984 row
> versions, but table contains 2983 row versions
>
> HINT: Rebuild the index with REINDEX.
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> After trying to reindex, I get
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> ERROR: could not create unique index
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> DETAIL: Table contains duplicated values.
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> I think I’m seeing the same issue – a duplicated row.
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> I know this should not happen – but does it in fact come to happen
> sometimes?
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> Is there a smarter way of dealing with it than deleting the duplicate?
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> How can these duplicates get produced?
Are you running with fsync off or on IDE drives (which are known to
lie)??? A crash when writing in that situation could cause this
problem. So could bad hardware in general (cpu, memory, hard drive
write errors, etc...)
> And, for pg_statistic in particular, is it safe to muck with it? What
> should I do?
You can delete everything in pg_statistic and the next analyze will fill
it right back up.
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