Re: Mismatched pg_class.reltuples between table and primary key

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: bricklen <bricklen(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Mismatched pg_class.reltuples between table and primary key
Date: 2013-12-03 00:35:12
Message-ID: 20131203003512.GG5731@eldon.alvh.no-ip.org
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bricklen escribió:
> We recently experienced a hard crash of a dev server due to lack of
> resources (we think, still investigating).
> That resulted in an interesting scenario where one of the tables was
> returning 12 rows from "select * from tbl", but "select * from tbl order by
> <pk column>" was only returning 11.
> Looking at pg_class.reltuples, it could be clearly seen that the table in
> question had a value of 12, but the primary key had only 11.

This sounds very similar to what was reported in
http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20131126123244.GI23284@alap2.anarazel.de

In short, you probably want to make sure to upgrade to this week's
release.

--
Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services

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