Re: Known issue with Reindex-based corruption?

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Known issue with Reindex-based corruption?
Date: 2004-02-26 17:40:03
Message-ID: 200402260940.03142.josh@agliodbs.com
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Tom,

> One question that comes to mind is were you reindexing a system or user
> table?

User.

> Another is whether you were using disks that lie about write
> completion (SCSI vs IDE)?

First thing I thought of. Haven't been able to verify, yet.

The basic symptoms are:
1) Machine stated scheduled REINDEX.
2) Unexpected power-out
3) On reboot, we have 2 different versions of the index file on disk,
one with 0 bytes. Attempts to use the index (via SELECT) result in
statement-fatal errors.

I'm waiting on more data. For now, I was wondering whether there was a known
issue with WAL recovery on indexes in 7.2.4. Neil thought there was.

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