Index (primary key) corrupt?

Wim Rouquart <wim.rouquart@kbc.be>

From: Wim Rouquart <wim.rouquart@kbc.be>
To: "pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org" <pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-09-18T12:25:38Z
Lists: pgsql-general
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Hello,

When doing a pg_dump of one of our databases one of the tables primary keys doesn't get exported. Pg_dump just skips this index, without any warning whatsoever (verbose mode was used to doublecheck).

When doing a REINDEX the issue is fixed.

As this seems to me to be some form of index corruption, I tried using amcheck (bt_index_check and bt_index_parent_check) to verify for corruption but both resulted with no issues (the index is a btree).

I would expect the corruption to show up when using amcheck, am I hitting some kind of bug here?

Are there any other ways to doublecheck for corruption (without enabling checksum upfront)?

This concerns a PostgreSQL version 15 btw.

Thanks!

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