From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Wells Oliver <wells(dot)oliver(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Odd pg dump error: cache lookup failure |
Date: | 2020-08-25 23:24:04 |
Message-ID: | 2775007.1598397844@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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I wrote:
> Wells Oliver <wells(dot)oliver(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> It doesn't exist any longer, which lead me to try to think of things that
>> might be dropped during the dump process.
> Hm, if you're actually *dropping* matviews during the dump then it's
> not so hard to explain this error. They'd have to be ones that were
> selected to be dumped though.
I experimented a bit to try to reproduce this problem. I cannot get
any sort of error from REFRESH (with or without CONCURRENTLY) in
parallel with a pg_dump. If I drop a view or matview, I can easily
get an error, but I've not managed to reproduce one that looks like
yours; it tends to be more like
pg_dump: error: query failed: ERROR: could not open relation with OID 45698
What I found that *would* reproduce "cache lookup failed for attribute"
from pg_get_indexdef() is to explicitly drop a matview's index just
before pg_dump gets to it. So I wonder if you are doing that in your
"refresh" procedure. The timing is not terribly tight; the drop has to
happen between where pg_dump acquires its transaction snapshot and where
it tries to investigate the matview's indexes, which could be some while
in a database with many objects. Also, if the transaction doing the index
drop also takes out any exclusive locks on regular tables, that could make
it much easier to send pg_dump down this rabbit hole, since it'd block
on those locks till the damage was done.
regards, tom lane
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