Re: [GENERAL] vacuumdb is failing with NUMBER OF INDEX TUPLES NOT

2004-05-12 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 07:49:42PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: Hmm, I would expect that behavior for an overwrite-in-place REINDEX, but 7.2 only seems to use overwrite-in-place for critical system catalogs. What were you reindexing exactly? Were you running a standalone backend? Not as far as

Re: [GENERAL] vacuumdb is failing with NUMBER OF INDEX TUPLES NOT

2004-05-10 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dunno if this is any help, but on a 7.2 system I saw a REINDEX which was interrupted leave the index at least partially working. We ended up with an index which seemed fine, but which didn't contain certain rows (so those rows were not visible when

Re: [GENERAL] vacuumdb is failing with NUMBER OF INDEX TUPLES NOT

2004-05-09 Thread Denis Braekhus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom Lane wrote: |Indicating that they should produce the same results, but that they work |differently. I am not sure what that implies, but maybe someone else knows ? | The only difference the docs are talking about is what kind of lock is | held

Re: [GENERAL] vacuumdb is failing with NUMBER OF INDEX TUPLES NOT

2004-05-08 Thread Denis Braekhus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lonni Friedman wrote: | Thanks for your reply. I thought (perhaps erroneously) that there | wasn't any real difference between dropping an index then recreating | it, and just reindexing an index? I am definitely not sure, and I agree it sounds

Re: [GENERAL] vacuumdb is failing with NUMBER OF INDEX TUPLES NOT

2004-05-08 Thread Tom Lane
Denis Braekhus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Indicating that they should produce the same results, but that they work differently. I am not sure what that implies, but maybe someone else knows ? The only difference the docs are talking about is what kind of lock is held while the rebuild proceeds.

Re: [GENERAL] vacuumdb is failing with NUMBER OF INDEX TUPLES NOT THE SAME AS HEAP

2004-05-07 Thread Lonni Friedman
Thanks for your reply. I thought (perhaps erroneously) that there wasn't any real difference between dropping an index then recreating it, and just reindexing an index? On Thu, 06 May 2004 23:00:25 +0200, Denis Braekhus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1

Re: [GENERAL] vacuumdb is failing with NUMBER OF INDEX TUPLES NOT THE SAME AS HEAP

2004-05-05 Thread Tom Lane
Lonni Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: All of a sudden last month (after about 3 years) I started getting this warning when vacuumdb was run: INFO: Index pg_largeobject_loid_pn_index: Pages 903; Tuples 323847: Deleted 0.CPU 0.04s/0.07u sec elapsed 0.10 sec. WARNING: Index

Re: [GENERAL] vacuumdb is failing with NUMBER OF INDEX TUPLES NOT THE SAME AS HEAP

2004-05-05 Thread Tom Lane
Lonni Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Unfortunately, i have no clue how to replicate this. It was happening fairly consistantly before i upgraded from 7.3.3 to 7.3.4 (like nearly every vacuumdb run). Then nothing for a month after going to 7.3.4, and now its happening every vacuumdb run

Re: [GENERAL] vacuumdb is failing with NUMBER OF INDEX TUPLES NOT THE SAME AS HEAP

2004-05-05 Thread Lonni Friedman
Its _always_ that same index. No others have had this problem. Unfortunately, i have no clue how to replicate this. It was happening fairly consistantly before i upgraded from 7.3.3 to 7.3.4 (like nearly every vacuumdb run). Then nothing for a month after going to 7.3.4, and now its happening

Re: [GENERAL] vacuumdb is failing with NUMBER OF INDEX TUPLES NOT THE SAME AS HEAP

2004-05-05 Thread Tom Lane
Lonni Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 05 May 2004 12:31:21 -0400, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once the complaint starts appearing, I'd expect it to continue until you reindex the index. That's exactly what happens. It consistantly errors until reindexed. Any suggestions?

Re: [GENERAL] vacuumdb is failing with NUMBER OF INDEX TUPLES NOT THE SAME AS HEAP

2004-05-05 Thread Lonni Friedman
On Wed, 05 May 2004 12:31:21 -0400, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lonni Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Unfortunately, i have no clue how to replicate this. It was happening fairly consistantly before i upgraded from 7.3.3 to 7.3.4 (like nearly every vacuumdb run). Then

Re: [GENERAL] vacuumdb is failing with NUMBER OF INDEX TUPLES NOT THE SAME AS HEAP

2004-05-05 Thread Lonni Friedman
On Wed, 05 May 2004 13:56:41 -0400, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lonni Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 05 May 2004 12:31:21 -0400, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once the complaint starts appearing, I'd expect it to continue until you reindex the index. That's exactly

Re: [GENERAL] vacuumdb is failing with NUMBER OF INDEX TUPLES NOT THE SAME AS HEAP

2004-05-05 Thread Tom Lane
Lonni Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hrmmm, i'm not sure what would constitute 'off the beaten track'. Neither am I ... if we knew what you were doing that triggers the bug, we'd already be halfway there :-( regards, tom lane ---(end of