Re: Please correct/improve wiki page about abbreviated keys bug

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>
Cc: Josh berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Please correct/improve wiki page about abbreviated keys bug
Date: 2016-03-30 02:31:54
Message-ID: 10042.1459305114@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com> writes:
> I made a pass over this, and changed some things. I noticed it said
> something about incorrect unique violations on affected systems. Is
> that really possible?

A corrupt index could easily fail to detect uniqueness violations (because
searches fail to find entries they should find). Not sure I believe that
it would make false reports of a uniqueness conflict that's not really
there.

regards, tom lane

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