Re: Duplicate data even with primary keys enabled

From: abbas alizadeh <ramkly(at)yahoo(dot)com>
To: Erik Wienhold <ewie(at)ewie(dot)name>
Cc: Scott Ribe <scott_ribe(at)elevated-dev(dot)com>, Teju Jakkidi vlogs <teja(dot)jakkidi05(at)gmail(dot)com>, Holger Jakobs <holger(at)jakobs(dot)com>, pgsql-admin(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Duplicate data even with primary keys enabled
Date: 2022-10-29 11:20:58
Message-ID: C254B8F9-9779-4F8F-BDAB-C55E7088FA7C@yahoo.com
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Hi all.
I faced the same issue last week.
We had duplicated records on primary key.
Postgresql version is 14.4

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> On 29 Oct 2022, at 4:18 AM, Erik Wienhold <ewie(at)ewie(dot)name> wrote:
>
> 
>>
>> On 28/10/2022 22:50 CEST Scott Ribe <scott_ribe(at)elevated-dev(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>> A corrupted index could allow that to happen by failing to catch the duplicate
>> insert. I suppose it might also be able to cause the same row to be returned
>> multiple times--although I have personally only ever seen corrupted indexes
>> cause rows to not be found.
>
> I think it should be possible to tell those two cases apart by looking at system
> column ctid. The ctid should be the same for duplicate rows if the same row is
> found multiple times in the index. Different ctid if the corrupted index
> allowed INSERT with duplicates.
>
> --
> Erik
>
>

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