Re: [HACKERS] Index corruption - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Index corruption
Date
Msg-id 199912291907.OAA07128@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Index corruption  (Adriaan Joubert <a.joubert@albourne.com>)
List pgsql-hackers
> > Were you the person I told to use pg_upgrade and re-initdb
> your > database? If not, I would recommend that as the fix.
> You may need to > re-enable pg_upgrade by editing the script.
> 
> Nope, but I've tried this now and it fails miserably for me. I
> had to edit the file created by pg_dump quote heavily as I have
> user-defined types and they required some initialisation before
> they could be used in the definition of indexes. Anyway, I
> managed to work around that, and pg_upgrade claimed that everything
> had finished successfully. But, although the datafiles were in
> the right place and the right size all the tables were empty.
> So some system tables were evidently not initialised correctly.
> I tried this both with 6.5.2 and 6.5.3, but no luck either way.

All I can say is someone did this recently for a system index problem
and it worked.

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