Re: Strange problem with create table as select * from table;

From: hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz(at)depesz(dot)com>
To: Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Strange problem with create table as select * from table;
Date: 2011-11-04 20:47:22
Message-ID: 20111104204722.GA3952@depesz.com
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On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 01:43:55PM -0700, Adrian Klaver wrote:
> >Does it tell you anything?
> You are very thorough.

I hate mysteries. Especially the ones that break stuff.

> I don't know enough about Postgres internals to be much help there.
> All I can point out is the problem seemed to appear over roughly a
> two month period 5/28/11-7/20/11.
> Any new code or procedures rolled out then?
> Any bug reports?

not as far as I know, but I'll check with guys. Still - app changes
shouldn't cause something like this in db?

> Given the turnover on this table it seems important everything is
> 'normal' since 7/20/11.

yes, but we can't do pg_reorg of the table (it has quite a lot of bloat)

Best regards,

depesz

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