Re: duplicates on primary key column

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Marcin Gil <marcin(dot)gil(at)audax(dot)com(dot)pl>
Cc: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: duplicates on primary key column
Date: 2003-12-23 15:43:48
Message-ID: 3524.1072194228@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Marcin Gil <marcin(dot)gil(at)audax(dot)com(dot)pl> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> I see no duplicate keys in your dump. How do you provoke the problem
>> exactly?

> Hmm.. It's enough to do 'select docid from documents where docid=0'
> and I get 3 answers (3 rows).

That's because you made "archives" inherit from "documents", so the scan
includes the rows in "archives" that have docid=0.

You could do "SELECT docid FROM ONLY documents" if you don't want the
scan to include child tables. But it's probably a bad idea to use
inheritance for the archives table at all.

regards, tom lane

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