Re: does this mean i have a corruption? - Mailing list pgsql-general

Tom Lane wrote:
> Adam Witney <awitney@sgul.ac.uk> writes:
>> bugasbase2=# SELECT bioassay_id, count(*) from mba_data_base where
>> bioassay_id = 5153 group by bioassay_id;
>>  bioassay_id | count
>> -------------+-------
>>         5153 | 20000
>>         9712 |   120
>
> That's pretty interesting :-(.  What PG version is this?  Is there an
> index on bioassay_id, and if so is the query using it?  REINDEXing
> the index might fix it.

aha yes... this is 7.4.12 by the way. I was confused as loading last
nights backup into a duplicate database made the problem go away. But as
you suggested running a REINDEX on the offending index fixed the problem!

thanks very much for your help Tom

adam

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