Re: 7.0.3 database corruption

mlw wrote:
>
> I know you guys want to focus on 7.1 or 7.2, and yes I am trying to move to
> 7.1, but it won't happen overnight.
>
> We have a serious problem with 7.0.3 and data corruption. We have a program
> that compares records in two tables. It creates a set of SQL scripts that
> either update, insert, or delelte records based on the comparison of the two
> tables. These scripts are then run against multiple database servers, which are
> slaves.
>
> Some of these scripts get pretty big, and take a while to run (10s of thousands
> of records are affected). After we run the scripts the database seems fine.
> Then we run two SQL scripts which create some summary tables. After we run the
> scripts, it looks like the database is corrupt.
>
> Oddly enough, if we run vacuum prior to running these scripts, the database
> does not seem to get corrupted.
>
> All I really need to know is if anyone has seen anything in the code which
> would explain this, and if so, do you know if is fixed in 7.1.x?

There certainly are bugs in 7.0.3 - I can describe at least two:

1. an index on varchar(8) (an user name) gets corrupted so that some
names are
no longer found when searching by index - they are still there when
doing an
unqualified select and come back after reindex for the qualified one.

1a. "FATAL: bits falling of the end of world" or something like it in
logs and
then broken db connection after that

2. Some kind of stuck locks - a single backend stuck in "INSERT waiting"
or
"DELETE waiting" state. This happens sporadically and requires a db
system
restart to go away

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Hannu