Re: dupes for PK and other UNIQUE indexes

From: Kevin Kempter <kevink(at)consistentstate(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: dupes for PK and other UNIQUE indexes
Date: 2009-11-01 23:30:14
Message-ID: 200911011630.14903.kevink@consistentstate.com
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On Sunday 01 November 2009 16:25:58 Tom Lane wrote:
> Kevin Kempter <kevink(at)consistentstate(dot)com> writes:
> > On Sunday 01 November 2009 15:50:20 you wrote:
> >> Kevin Kempter <kevink(at)consistentstate(dot)com> writes:
> >>> Anyone have any Idea how this could happen?
> >>
> >> Corrupt indexes. What PG version are we talking about?
> >
> > version 8.3.8
>
> Well, there aren't any known causes of btree index corruption in 8.3.x,
> but that doesn't mean you haven't found something new. Does this
> installation have any nonstandard history? (I'm wondering about things
> like it having been a WAL standby at one time, or part of a Slony
> setup, or something like that.) Can you provide any other data that
> might help somebody reproduce the problem?
>
> BTW, please keep your responses cc'd to the list.
>
> regards, tom lane
>

I'll do some digging and see what I can find. They are using Ruby on Rails,
that's all I have so far.

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