Re: [HACKERS] VACUUM ANALYZE Problem

From: James Hughes <jamesh(at)interpath(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: vadim(at)sable(dot)krasnoyarsk(dot)su, hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org, wieck(at)sapserv(dot)debis(dot)de
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] VACUUM ANALYZE Problem
Date: 1998-02-03 20:36:46
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.3.93.980203152445.248A-100000@xport.bluewall.com
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On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:

: >
: >
: >
: > On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, Vadim B. Mikheev wrote:
: >
: > : James Hughes wrote:
: > : >
: > : > After poking arround some more, I found that the "vacuum analyze" is
: > : > causing problems with the "<" and ">" operators. The "> 0" in the SELECT
: > : > for "/d <table>" and "/dS" commands in psql cause the error.
: > : >
: > : > I verified that any simple query using the "<" or ">" operators fail
: > : > with the same message...
: > : >
: > : > ERROR: fmgr_info: function 0: cache lookup failed
: > : >
: > : > ...after using the "vacuum analyse" command.
: > : > But, only after vacuuming any relation that was created and populated by
: > : > me. Vacumming system catalogs poses no problems.
: > :
: > : Well, I found that this problem was caused by selfuncs.c:gethilokey():
: > :
: > : static ScanKeyData key[3] = {
: > : {0, Anum_pg_statistic_starelid, F_OIDEQ},
: > : {0, Anum_pg_statistic_staattnum, F_INT2EQ},
: > : {0, Anum_pg_statistic_staop, F_OIDEQ}
: > :
: > : : skankeys are hardcoded without call to ScanKeyEntryInitialize() =>
: > : without initialization of sk_func.fn_oid required, I assume, by
: > : new PL support code. Patch for this place follows...
: > : One should check all places where ScanKeyData is used.
: > : Jan, could you do this ?
: > :
: >
: > THANKS! I'll patch my code and check the other instances.
:
: James, are you going to submit a patch for all the source code?
:

Go ahead with just Vadim's patch for now. It fixes the analyze problem.
I am going out of town for a few days and won't have access to my Dev
System until then. I'll work on it this weekend if it still needs doing.

-James

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