Re: Rare corruption of pg_class index

From: "Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Rare corruption of pg_class index
Date: 2006-12-20 19:18:13
Message-ID: e576c08c6bf988053ab8380eff3f93eb@biglumber.com
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(Jeff Davis: I've not changed the function, so it's not the plan cache)

Tom Lane wrote:
> Does the mentioned OID actually correspond to the OID of the table it's
> supposed to be opening, or is it wrong? Is anything being done to
> the table schema in parallel?

Yes, it is the correct OID. No, nothing done to the schema in parallel,
although there is a process that disables/re-enables triggers and rules
on that table via pg_class tweaking (inside a txn, of course).

> If the table is occasionally dropped and recreated...

Yeah, that's the first thing I thought of, but it's definitely not
being dropped and recreated.

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> It would help if you could get a stack trace at the moment of the
>> problem, but I'm not sure how to do that.
>
> Perhaps insert an abort() call right before the elog(ERROR)
> that's reporting this. (I think there are three possibilities,
> but they're all in heapam.c so you might as well just hack them all.)

Argh, that will have to be a last resort measure, as this is a
production system. Have not been able to duplicate yet on a dev
box, but will look into adding the abort() for when/if I can
duplicate it there. Thanks everyone.

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