Last night during a vacuum full, one of our production 7.4.12 databases threw
this warning:
WARNING: FlushRelationBuffers("idxtype26", 6137): block 5752 is referenced
(private 0, global 1)
vacuumdb: vacuuming of database "cvdb" failed: ERROR: FlushRelationBuffers
returned -2
PANIC: cannot abort transaction 35650725, it was already committed
server closed the connection unexpectedly
This probably means the server terminated abnormally
before or while processing the request.
We do use some external C functions that deal with creating indexes and locking
tables, but we're pretty confident that they're locking correctly. Another bit
of information, the database gets restarted before the vacuum process begins.
Is this something that will resolve itself the next time the database gets
vacuumed or does it need some kind of immediate action? Does the index need
reindexed?
Thanks
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