Re: cache lookup failed for index - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Nathan Robertson
Subject Re: cache lookup failed for index
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Msg-id AANLkTikHYDu6d9qOrGK9L_t8zKk7znRngY8Tkmvv4BKo@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: cache lookup failed for index  ("Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>)
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Hi Kevin,

Thanks for this. I've found a lot of information on this online but I'm a little unclear about how exactly I should connect and run the reindex.

My thinking based on the documentation is I run (as postgres user):
postgres -O -P -D /dbcluster/location

Then I run:
REINDEX TABLE pg_class_oid_in;

Is this correct?

Nate


On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> wrote:
Nathan Robertson <nathan.robertson@gmail.com> wrote:

> The failure basically happened because the Django webapp we're
> running isn't effectively closing database connections. So, memory
> is completely filling up and causing the server to hang.
> Yesterday, when this happened it caused the entire network
> interface to become inoperable which meant that the iscsi
> connection to the shared drive stopped working and data became
> corrupt.
>
> I stopped the postgresql service before unmounting and remounting
> the target.

OK, I think the appropriate next step would be to try to run the
PostgreSQL cluster in single-user mode:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/app-postgres.html

Try to REINDEX pg_class_oid_index in that mode.  If that fails, it
might possibly help to run these statements and try the REINDEX
command again:

set enable_indexscan = off;
set enable_bitmapscan = off;

I hope this helps.

-Kevin

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