Re: Please correct/improve wiki page about abbreviated keys bug - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Please correct/improve wiki page about abbreviated keys bug
Date
Msg-id 10042.1459305114@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Please correct/improve wiki page about abbreviated keys bug  (Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com>)
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Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com> writes:
> I made a pass over this, and changed some things. I noticed it said
> something about incorrect unique violations on affected systems. Is
> that really possible?

A corrupt index could easily fail to detect uniqueness violations (because
searches fail to find entries they should find).  Not sure I believe that
it would make false reports of a uniqueness conflict that's not really
there.
        regards, tom lane



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