It appears that I can select the rows, but not delete or update them.
# select ctid from files where ctid = '(53101,30)';
ctid
------------
(53101,30)
(1 row)
# delete from files where ctid = '(53101,30)';
DELETE 0
# update files set fileid = 1000 where ctid = '(53101,30)';
UPDATE 0
#
-Zeki
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Tom Lane wrote:
> Zeki Mokhtarzada <zeki@freewebz.com> writes:
> > The system is running on a Dell PowerEdge 2650 running RedHat 8. We had a
> > kernel halt about two weeks ago that was caused by one of our disk mirrors
> > failing. It could be that these problems were caused at that point in
> > time and are just being noticed now.
>
> Not sure. xmin=2 (FrozenXid) implies that those rows have been like
> that for a good long time (~ 1 billion transactions).
>
> > But you never stated how to delete the duplicate rows. Any suggestions?
>
> You can select 'em by ctid, viz WHERE ctid = '(53101,30)'
>
> regards, tom lane
>