Re: Vacuum Problems (locking)

["Jim C. Nasby" <jim(at)nasby(dot)net>]

On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 04:00:29PM -0400, Mike Goldner wrote:
> I just noticed that my nightly vacuum failed the previous three nights
> with the following error:
> 
> [2032-jbossdb-postgres-2006-10-24 04:12:30.019 EDT]ERROR:  failed to re-
> find parent key in "jms_messages_pkey"
> [2032-jbossdb-postgres-2006-10-24 04:12:30.019 EDT]STATEMENT:  VACUUM
> ANALYZE;
> 
> I'm not sure if it is related, but it seems pertinent.

Well, vacuuming a lot of databases once a day is bad enough. Not
vacuuming for 3 days...

IIRC you can fix that issue by reindexing jms_messages_pkey.
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