Re: Strange problem with create table as select * from table;

On Thursday, November 03, 2011 8:05:38 am hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 08:04:19AM -0700, Adrian Klaver wrote:
> > So just to be clear there is and never has been a -1 value for xobject_id
> > in the source table?
>
> yes. min value of xobject_id is 1000, and we had trigger in place on the
> table which logged all inserts/updates/deletes and the value -1 never
> showed up (At least in the last couple of days, during which i was
> making the copies).
>
> > So a select count(*) from sssssss.xobjects where xobject_id = -1 on the
> > source table yields 0?
>
> yes, that's correct. both using index, and usingf seq scan.

Hmmm.  Now we await the results of the tests Tom suggested.  Just a thought, any
other strange behavior, hiccups in the database over the past couple of days?

>
> Best regards,
>
> depesz

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