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Re: PANIC: failed to re-find parent key in "100924" for split pages 1606/1673 - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Simon Riggs
Subject Re: PANIC: failed to re-find parent key in "100924" for split pages 1606/1673
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Msg-id 1231442145.18005.260.camel@ebony.2ndQuadrant
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In response to Re: PANIC: failed to re-find parent key in "100924" for split pages 1606/1673  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 13:40 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > Can we downgrade the error from PANIC to LOG please?
>
> No, that seems utterly unsafe to me.  We'd have a corrupt index and
> nothing to cause it to get repaired.

We do exactly this with GIN and GIST indexes currently.

I'd rather have a database that works, but has a corrupt index than one
that won't come up at all.

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 Simon Riggs           www.2ndQuadrant.com
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