Re: vacuum error "left link changed unexpectedly"

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Ulrich Wisser <ulrich(dot)wisser(at)relevanttraffic(dot)se>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: vacuum error "left link changed unexpectedly"
Date: 2005-08-16 13:40:22
Message-ID: 29943.1124199622@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Ulrich Wisser <ulrich(dot)wisser(at)relevanttraffic(dot)se> writes:
> indexrelid
> ---------------
> userclick_i01
> userclick_i02
> userclick_i03
> userclick_i04
> userclick_i05
> userclick_i06
> userclick_i07
> (7 rows)

OK, so userclick_i02 appears to be the broken index.

> How do I proceed? How can I tell which files are involved?

See contrib/oid2name, or read
http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/storage.html
and work out the index file name for yourself.

If you don't already have a copy of pg_filedump, see
http://sources.redhat.com/rhdb/utilities.html

regards, tom lane

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