Re: Cannot create unique index

yes, there were duplicates

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Gould" <andrewgould@yahoo.com>
To: "Henrik Steffen" <steffen@city-map.de>
Cc: "pgsql" <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 3:39 PM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Cannot create unique index


> Could you identify duplicated index values? Or were
> the messages erroneous?
>
> --- Henrik Steffen <steffen@city-map.de> wrote:
> > yes, of course, I allready did this.
> >
> > What I was aiming at, was, that postgres
> > should normally not insert a duplicate value
> > into a unique index, should it?
> >
> > Isn't this a bug?
> >
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> > Mit freundlichem Gruß
> >
> > Henrik Steffen
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> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Andrew Gould" <andrewgould@yahoo.com>
> > To: "Henrik Steffen" <steffen@city-map.de>
> > Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 2:46 PM
> > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Cannot create unique index
> >
> >
> > > --- Henrik Steffen <steffen@city-map.de> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hello all,
> > > >
> > > > REINDEXING a table I get the following message:
> > > >
> > > > ERROR:   Cannot create unique index. Table
> > contains
> > > > non-unique values.
> > > >
> > > > How can that be in REINDEXING ?
> > > >
> > > > This means, that the index has been corrupted
> > > > before,
> > > > because the index has always been unique. But
> > > > somehow
> > > > the postmaster must have succeeded in inserting
> > a
> > > > non-unique
> > > > value anyway.
> > > >
> > > > Now the index is corrupted, and I get every
> > 10-15
> > > > minutes
> > > > a message, telling me the following:
> > > >
> > > > The Postmaster has informed me that some other
> > > > backend
> > > > died abnormally and possibly corrupted shared
> > > > memory.
> > > > I have rolled back the current transaction and
> > am
> > > > going to terminate your database system
> > connection
> > > > and exit.
> > > > Please reconnect to the database system and
> > repeat
> > > > your query.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Haven't had this for quite a while now (using
> > 7.3.3)
> > > >
> > > > Any idea?
> > > >
> > > > In my opinion this should not be possible...
> > > >
> > > > Henrik Steffen
> > >
> > > You might try:
> > >
> > > 1. Drop the unique index.
> > > 2. Perform a query to check for duplicates.
> > > 3. Remove duplicates, if any.
> > > 4. Vacuum the table.
> > > 5. Recreate the unique index.
> > >
> > > Best of luck,
> > >
> > > Andrew Gould
> >
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