Re: duplicate primary key

From: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Alexander Pyhalov <alp(at)rsu(dot)ru>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, pgsql-general General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: duplicate primary key
Date: 2017-11-25 04:43:51
Message-ID: CAB7nPqTT4YW5h0cfbWGz=K_YPGH5NmDe2jvQG6kTU1gdr1W_yA@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 1:28 AM, Alexander Pyhalov <alp(at)rsu(dot)ru> wrote:
> On 11/22/17 07:24 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> What is your postgres version, and what's the "version history" of
>> upgrades
>> from it (talking pg_upgrade upgrades, not dump/reload upgrades). This
>> might
>> be fallout from old bugs thaat have been known to cause this type of
>> problem.
>>
>
> It's PostgreSQL 9.5.10 (64bit), running on Ubuntu 16.04.
> Last major update was done as full dump/restore.

You may as well be facing what is called the freeze-the-dead bug,
where a VACUUM FREEZE brings back dead tuples:
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/E5711E62-8FDF-4DCA-A888-C200BF6B5742@amazon.com
There is a patch in the works for it that should land in the next
round of minor releases.
--
Michael

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