Re: duplicate primary index in bayes db from SpamAssassin

From: Michael Monnerie <michael(dot)monnerie(at)it-management(dot)at>
To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: duplicate primary index in bayes db from SpamAssassin
Date: 2008-04-17 23:28:14
Message-ID: 200804180128.15120@zmi.at
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On Donnerstag, 17. April 2008 Tom Lane wrote:
> This latest bit with many fewer index entries than table entries is
> just weird, though.  The 8.1.10 VACUUM bug could have led to having
> *more* index entries than table entries, but not the other way
> around.

Somehow I can think of it like that: SA didn't find user "vscan"
anymore, so created a new entry for it. And then it created all the new
learned ham/spam tokens again despite they were there already. Must
have to do with not finding it from the index or so.

It would be nice if pg_dump would FAIL on such a broken database. Like
this, I would have become informed about the problem. The bayes db
isn't quite interactive, and SA seems to ignore errors. The reason I
found it was that our SPAM filter started to let spam through which did
not happen for years (yes, we have *very hard* anti spam settings, our
customers love it that way - no spam). So I got aware that bayes got
stupid and then I found the mess...

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