Re: "PANIC: could not open critical system index 2662" - twice - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: "PANIC: could not open critical system index 2662" - twice
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Msg-id 20230516233950.qk5ituuktdyo36bg@awork3.anarazel.de
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In response to Re: "PANIC: could not open critical system index 2662" - twice  (Evgeny Morozov <postgresql3@realityexists.net>)
Responses Re: "PANIC: could not open critical system index 2662" - twice  (Evgeny Morozov <postgresql3@realityexists.net>)
Re: "PANIC: could not open critical system index 2662" - twice  (Evgeny Morozov <postgresql3@realityexists.net>)
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Hi,

On 2023-05-16 14:20:46 +0000, Evgeny Morozov wrote:
> On 9/05/2023 3:32 am, Andres Freund wrote:
> > Attached is a rough prototype of that idea (only using datconnlimit ==
> > -2 for now).
> > I guess we need to move this to -hackers. Perhaps I'll post subsequent
> > versions below
> > https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20230314174521.74jl6ffqsee5mtug%40awork3.anarazel.de ?
> So now that a patch is in the works, can I drop the two corrupted
> databases?

Yes.


> Is there a workaround I can use to reduce the risk of running into this
> issue again until a patch is released? (Which I guess would be in August?)

Try to prevent the DROP DATABASE from getting cancelled :/. If you want to go
a bit further, you could rename the database to *_dropped before dropping it,
and then try to do the DROP DATABASE. That way you'd at least know that it's
corrupt because of a failed DROP database.

Greetings,

Andres Freund



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