Re: how could duplicate pkey exist in psql?

From: Szymon Guz <mabewlun(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Yan Chunlu <springrider(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: how could duplicate pkey exist in psql?
Date: 2011-11-17 08:07:07
Message-ID: CAFjNrYtn=SjFhBGwvM0WM_Z4=jJBuzV6fTRB=aktHA7z3RjYbA@mail.gmail.com
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On 17 November 2011 06:19, Yan Chunlu <springrider(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> recently I have found several tables has exactly the same pkey, here is
> the definition:
> "diggcontent_data_account_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (thing_id, key)
>
>
> the data is like this:
>
> 159292 | funnypics_link_point | 41
>
> | num
> 159292 | funnypics_link_point | 40
>
> | num
>
>
> I could not even update this record.
>
> really confused about how could this happen... thanks!
>

Hi,
could you send us result of the query:
select thing_id, '|'||key||'|' from table?
Maybe there are some more spaces in the key column which were hidden by
table alignment in the client?

regards
Szymon

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