I guess I experienced this behaviour a few times when the index was broken
or out of sync. I guess that some index checks returned, that it's not in a
healthy state. That was a few years back so I don't recall better details...

On Tue, 5 Mar 2024 at 11:03, Jef Van Loon via discuss <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Sergei,
>
> I am currently not able to provide further details.
>
> System 1: Unfortunately I have not saved the queries and results from the
> analysis. I have not seen the problem since the OPTIMIZE table. I will
> investigate during the month (we will have to wait for users entering data
> in this table) and get back to this discussion if I encounter the issue
> again. What still makes me uncomfortable is that the problem went away
> after dropping/recreating an index and reappeared later. Also importing a
> dump of the database into a dev environment did not reveal the same
> problem.
>
> Do you have any insight if there are cases where index malfunctioning may
> cause inconsistent results (depending on whether the index is being used)
> and a drop/recreate does not fully serve the problem. I would be surprised
> if drop/recreate leads to different results than optimize table. As far as
> I understand, optimize does also rebuild indexes in addition to rebuilding
> the entire table file on disk (which would be more or less the same as
> importing a dump into another system).
>
> System 2: The problem appeared to be the same as on system 1, but further
> analysis revealed that this was completely unrelated even though the
> symptoms initially lead me to the conclusion that this would be the same
> issue.
>
> Kind regards,
> Jef
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