Thank you very much for a quick answer. Here is our situation: Query: select cmax, cmin, xmax, xmin, ctid, oid, * from unitcontainer where unitcontainername = 'Track';
Result: oid id_unitcontainer id_basecomb id_unitcontainertype id_userinstance unitcontainername 16.995.030 10.464 1.009 1 1.063 'Track' cmax 102, cmin 126761922, xmax 126761922, xmin 121168748, ctid (84,107) so, only ONE row. "unitcontainername" has an unique index ("index_12"). Here is the result for the following query: Query: reindex index index_12; Result: ERROR: could not create unique index DETAIL: Table contains duplicated values. Unable to reindex as well :(. Now comes the most interesting part. Query: select cmax, cmin, xmax, xmin, ctid, oid, * from ds_unitcontainer where oid = 16995030 Result: oid id_unitcontainer id_unitcontainertype id_userinstance unitcontainername 16.995.030 10.464 1 1.063 'Track' cmax 121457766, cmin 21, xmax 121168748, xmin 121168748, ctid (83,79) 16.995.030 10.464 1 1.063 'Track' cmax 102, cmin 126761922, xmax 126761922, xmin 121168748, ctid (84,107) Now we get TWO rows! The most astonishing thing about it - there are whole 3 uniqueness violations: 1) primary key violation for "id_unitcontainer" 2) unique index violation for "unitcontainername" 3) the most "crazy" one - for "oid" ! Please let us know, what we can do to fix this kind of problems, reindexing seems to be impossible too :(:( ... Thank you very much ! > Gaetano Mendola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > When you are experiencing this show us the result of this query: > > select cmax, cmin, xmax, xmin, * from <table> where <your condition>; > > Also, please, the ctid and oid columns (but leave out oid if you made > the table WITHOUT OIDS). > > Also, if the condition is one that will normally use an index, try > the same query with and without "set enable_indexscan = off". It > could be that a corrupted index would cause the query to visit the > same rows multiple times (or miss rows!). > > It might be a good idea to REINDEX the primary-key index on the table, > but I would counsel not doing so until we have more data on what's > happening. If the problem is index corruption then REINDEX would > destroy all the evidence ... > > regards, tom lane > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match