Re: Disappearing table - suggestions on possible causes appreciated.

From: Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Disappearing table - suggestions on possible causes appreciated.
Date: 2007-06-08 15:12:45
Message-ID: 20070608151245.GH17144@phlogiston.dyndns.org
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On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 07:39:26AM -0700, Andrew Edson wrote:
> Recently, there have been incidents across a few of the offices
> where the region table in their local copy of the database has
> mysteriously lost all of its data.

Well, a couple possibilities:

1. Are you vacuuming correctly? If you had xid wraparound, your
data could disappear.

2. Malice or pilot error: are you sure nobody has issued
TRUNCATE on the table?

A

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