Re: Vacuum/visibility is busted

Pavan Deolasee escribió:
> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Pavan Deolasee <pavan(dot)deolasee(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Will look more into it, but thought this might be useful for others to
> > spot the problem.
> >
>
> And here is some more forensic info about one of the pages having
> duplicate tuples.
>
> jjanes=# select *, xmin, xmax, ctid from foo where index IN (select
> index from foo group by index having count(*) > 1 ORDER by index)
> ORDER by index LIMIT 3;
> index | count | xmin | xmax | ctid
> -------+-------+------------+------+-----------
> 219 | 353 | 2100345903 | 0 | (150,98)
> 219 | 354 | 2100346051 | 0 | (150,101)
> 219 | 464 | 2101601086 | 0 | (150,126)
> (3 rows)

Hm, if the foreign key patch is to blame, this sounds like these tuples
had a different set of XMAX hint bits and a different Xmax, and they
were clobbered by something like vacuum or page pruning.

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