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Re: Fwd: index corruption in PG 8.3.13

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
Cc: Nikhil Sontakke <nikhil.sontakke@enterprisedb.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-03-10T18:29:45Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 1. Somebody inserts a bunch of new tuples into the relation, causing
>> growth in the index.
>
> In case it's not obvious VACUUM FULL would do precisely that.

Oh, I didn't even think about that.  Yeah, that could be it, too.  So
maybe VACUUM FULL - crash before checkpoint - problem with recovery?

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Robert Haas
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