Hi, could you tell me how postgresql look for a referenced key? It looks in
table index? Maybe only the index is corrupted?
Thanks!
On 8/2/06, Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone.bigpanda.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Luiz Henrique wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm running Postgresql 7.3 in Debian Woody OS.
> >
> > After some time working properly, insert's statements related this
> error:
> >
> > ----
> > referential integrity violation - key referenced from xxx not found in
> yyy
> > ----
> >
> > This error would be normal, if the key really doesn't exist, but the key
> > exist.
> > The insert's work some times, and some times don't.
> >
> >
> > Is there any file corrupted?
>
> It's hard to say. I'd have expected that a select * from parent where
> key=value would fail for both the fk check and for a check to see if the
> key exists assuming they used the same plan. Can you make a standalone
> test case?
>
> > Removing the fk constraint would resolve the problem?
>
> Well, it'd stop the message, but if there is corruption, it wouldn't fix
> that.
>
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