Re: Duplicate indexes found in the postgres Database - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Duplicate indexes found in the postgres Database
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Msg-id 17185.1044132145@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Duplicate indexes found in the postgres Database  ("Chris White" <cjwhite@cisco.com>)
Responses Re: Duplicate indexes found in the postgres Database  ("Chris White" <cjwhite@cisco.com>)
Re: Duplicate indexes found in the postgres Database  ("Chris White" <cjwhite@cisco.com>)
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"Chris White" <cjwhite@cisco.com> writes:
> How do I look at the catalogs and which ones do I need to look at?

Now that I look at it, pg_tables is not a join in 7.2, but just a
straight select from pg_class.  So the problem is definitely in
pg_class.  Let's see the results of

select ctid,xmin,xmax,oid,* from pg_class where relname = 'vm_message';

and similarly for the other duplicates.

> No we haven't seen any system crashes, but people have reported that the
> tables that are duplicated are possibly missing some data.

Hm.  Trying to avoid theorizing in advance of the data...

            regards, tom lane

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