Matt Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) reports a bug with a severity of 2 The lower the number the more severe it is.
Short Description Sequence currupted on recovery after kill -9 Long Description If you create a file with an implied sequence and do a couple of inserts, then do a kill -9, when you start up again, the sequence will have a corrupted next_value field. In the example, the value of last_value is 4 before the kill -9 and 34 when it comes back up. Sample Code [root@hawk temp]# cat list.txt [postgres@buzzard tf]$ cat ins2.sh psql testdb -c "create table test (id serial,name text);" psql testdb -c "insert into test (name) values ('name1')" psql testdb -c "insert into test (name) values ('name2')" psql testdb -c "insert into test (name) values ('name3')" psql testdb -c "insert into test (name) values ('name4')" psql testdb -c "select * from test" psql testdb -c "select * from test_id_seq" cat data/postmaster.pid [postgres@buzzard tf]$ [postgres@buzzard tf]$ ins2.sh NOTICE: CREATE TABLE will create implicit sequence 'test_id_seq' for SERIAL column 'test.id' NOTICE: CREATE TABLE / UNIQUE will create implicit index 'test_id_key' for table 'test' CREATE INSERT 41140 1 INSERT 41141 1 INSERT 41142 1 INSERT 41143 1 id | name ----+------- 1 | name1 2 | name2 3 | name3 4 | name4 (4 rows) sequence_name | last_value | increment_by | max_value | min_value | cache_value | log_cnt | is_cycled | is_called ---------------+------------+--------------+---------------------+-----------+-------------+---------+-----------+----------- test_id_seq | 4 | 1 | 9223372036854775807 | 1 | 1 | 30 | f | t (1 row) 19177 /home/tf/data 5432001 3342354 [postgres@buzzard tf]$ kill -9 19177 [postgres@buzzard tf]$ pg_ctl -l logfile start pg_ctl: Another postmaster may be running. Trying to start postmaster anyway. postmaster successfully started [postgres@buzzard tf]$ psql testdb -c "select * from test_id_seq" sequence_name | last_value | increment_by | max_value | min_value | cache_value | log_cnt | is_cycled | is_called ---------------+------------+--------------+---------------------+-----------+-------------+---------+-----------+----------- test_id_seq | 34 | 1 | 9223372036854775807 | 1 | 1 | 0 | f | t (1 row) No file was uploaded with this report ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html