Re: Out of sync Primary Key Index

----- "Dave Coventry" <dgcoventry(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> I have deleted a record from a table and am now getting errors:
>
> INSERT INTO content_node_field (field_name, type, global_settings,
> required, multiple, db_storage, module, db_columns, active, locked)
> VALUES ('field_client_name', 'text',
> 'a:4:{s:15:"text_processing";s:0:"";s:10:"max_length";s:0:"";s:14:"allowed_values";s:0:"";s:18:"allowed_values_php";s:0:"";}',
> 0, 0, 1, 'text',
> 'a:1:{s:5:"value";a:5:{s:4:"type";s:4:"text";s:4:"size";s:3:"big";s:8:"not
> null";b:0;s:8:"sortable";b:1;s:5:"views";b:1;}}', 1, 0);
> ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint
> "content_node_field_pkey"
>
> My table is as follows:
>
> \d content_node_field;
> Table "public.content_node_field"
> Column | Type | Modifiers
> -----------------+------------------------+----------------------------------------
> field_name | character varying(32) | not null default
> ''::character varying
> type | character varying(127) | not null default
> ''::character varying
> global_settings | text | not null
> required | smallint | not null default 0
> multiple | smallint | not null default 0
> db_storage | smallint | not null default 1
> module | character varying(127) | not null default
> ''::character varying
> db_columns | text | not null
> active | smallint | not null default 0
> locked | smallint | not null default 0
> Indexes:
> "content_node_field_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (field_name)
>
> From googling I need to reset my Primary Key, but
>
> reindex index content_node_field_pkey;
> REINDEX
>
> Doesn't make any difference (no error is returned)
>
> Nor does
> reindex table content_node_field;
> REINDEX
>

No what it is telling you is that the field_name ('field_client_name') is already in the table.

Adrian Klaver
aklaver(at)comcast(dot)net