On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, Tom Lane wrote:

Jeff Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Well, I spoke to soon on the it all works front.  So, it's been
reindexed and appears to be working properly now.  I guess I'll keep
an eye on it for a while.  I didn't get your query suggestion in time,
so hopefully I grabbed the right binary file..though it did seem to
disappear after the reindex, so I think it's likely the correct one.
Definitely got the correct second one.

Well, I can't find anything wrong :-(.  There are some differences in
the list of contained keys, but they're all up near the end of the
range, which is consistent with the assumption that the table is live
and had some changes between your two dumps of the index.  In
particular, there's no difference in the entries for the troublesome
key value:

38635629                24080   25
38635629                24080   26
38635629                24080   27

So I dunno what to make of it.  If it happens again, we need to look
more closely.

Tom, I know we shouldn't have to REINDEX in the 8.1.x days. Do you have any idea what might have allowed this to happen? A while back this particular server was unable to send e-mail and so we weren't getting the vacuum verbose output. As a consequence the FSM settings were too low. That has been remedied, but I'm wondering if it's possible that the FSM settings being too low would allow the INDEX to somehow get damaged?

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