From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: pg_filedump strangeness |
Date: | 2010-04-06 22:33:59 |
Message-ID: | 20100406223359.GG3491@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > I'm chasing an apparent index corruption problem, and I came across
> > something I can't quite explain in pg_filedump. Say I dump a non-leaf
> > btree index page:
>
> I think this is actually OK. Remember that in a non-rightmost page,
> item 1 is the high key not a data entry.
Oh, BTW, this is not what's corrupted about this index -- I just had
trouble following what pg_filedump was reporting. The corruption is
more subtle: vacuum cannot find the parent page when trying to mark a
page for deletion.
--
Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
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