Re: Rows violating Foreign key constraint exists

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Nandakumar M <m(dot)nanda92(at)gmail(dot)com>, Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>, "pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Rows violating Foreign key constraint exists
Date: 2019-11-29 19:18:39
Message-ID: CAH2-WzkCUMSjLtPFO2NscAzqoJVYiOvycQXAaShdZHy=EUUs1A@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Nov 29, 2019 at 7:23 AM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> The most likely "corruption" explanation is something wrong with the
> indexes on the referenced and/or referencing column, causing rows to
> not be found when referential actions should have found them. Random
> querying of the tables wouldn't necessarily expose that --- you'd need
> to be sure that your queries use the questionable indexes, and maybe
> even search for some of the specific rows that seem mis-indexed.

Or try using contrib/amcheck, which is available in Postgres 10.
Perhaps try the query here, modified to verify all B-Tree indexes (not
just those indexes in the pg_catalog schema):

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/amcheck.html

--
Peter Geoghegan

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