Re: Strange problem with create table as select * from table;

On Friday, November 04, 2011 6:04:02 pm Tom Lane wrote:
> I wrote:
> > A different line of thought is that there's something about these
> > specific source rows, and only these rows, that makes them vulnerable to
> > corruption during INSERT/SELECT. Do they by any chance contain any
> > values that are unusual elsewhere in your table? One thing I'm
> > wondering about right now is the nulls bitmap --- so do these rows have
> > nulls (or not-nulls) in any place that's unusual elsewhere?
>
> Hah ... I have a theory.
>

>
> This is trivial to fix, now that we know there's a problem --- the
> function is only using that assumption to save itself a couple lines
> of code. Penny wise, pound foolish :-(

I killed a few brain cells just reading the explanation:)

>
> regards, tom lane
>
>

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