Re: Tables dissapearing

From: Kamil Srot <kamil(dot)srot(at)nlogy(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Erik Jones <erik(at)myemma(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Tables dissapearing
Date: 2007-08-28 00:07:17
Message-ID: 46D36735.2020707@nlogy.com
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Kamil Srot <kamil(dot)srot(at)nlogy(dot)com> writes:
>
>> From above mentioned duplications of relatio names and what Tom wrote
>> recently (doesn't see like WA problem), it looks like the relation name
>> is/gets corrupted in some way and this corruption is internally taken
>> over to another instance of relation named the same but in another
>> database... but I know - it's too speculative.
>>
>
> The fact that the same thing happens concurrently in several independent
> databases is to me the strongest indication that it's something the
> client is doing. There isn't *any* mechanism within Postgres that would
> somehow cause similarly-named tables in different DBs to go south at the
> same time. I don't say that it couldn't be a PG bug, but I do say that
> the client is doing something similar in each database to trigger it.
>
> My advice is to turn on log_statement and acquire a trace (with
> timestamps) of all the SQL commands being executed across the whole
> system. Looking at what happens up to the instant the problem appears
> should provide some clues.
>
>
OK, I did it... have good logging now, so if it'll happen again, I'll
post relevant part of it to the list.

Thank you for your help!
--
Kamil

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