Re: Duplicate values found when reindexing unique index

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: "Mason Hale" <masonhale(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Duplicate values found when reindexing unique index
Date: 2007-12-31 06:27:51
Message-ID: 23898.1199082471@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>> I wonder whether it's just a coincidence that these have the same offset
>> number...

> I can't imagine any Postgres bug which would depend on the offsets
> being the same. But what I could imagine is filesystem corruption
> which copied the block to someplace else in the table or possibly has
> even mapped the same block into two different places in the table.

That idea was in my mind too, but Mason stated that the rows showed
different "updated_at" values, so they couldn't be mirror images of that
sort. The pg_filedump output for the two blocks would be more conclusive
about this though --- I was expecting to pay attention to the whole
block contents not only the seemingly-dup rows.

regards, tom lane

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