Tom Lane writes:> Dirk Lutzebaeck <lutzeb@aeccom.com> writes:> > cs=> select envelope from recipient where
envelope=510349;>> [ returns a tuple that obviously fails the WHERE condition ]> > Yipes. Do you have an index on the
envelopefield, and if so is> it being used for this query? (Use EXPLAIN to check.) My guess> is that the index is
corrupted. Dropping and recreating the index> would probably set things right.
Yes, thanks, recreating the index cures the problem.
> Of course the real issue is how it got corrupted. Hiroshi found> an important bug in btree a few days ago, and there
isa discussion> going on right now about lock-manager bugs that might possibly allow> multiple backends to corrupt data
thatthey're concurrently updating.> But I have no idea if either of those explains your problem.
Does this mean they can deadlock themselves? Is this also true for
6.4.2? I probably switch back then.
Thanks, Dirk