The rows that were preserved in the nodes table were the ones that were not dups originally.
Best regards, Mark Brady amazon.com/author/markjbrady<https://amazon.com/author/markjbrady> ________________________________ From: Adrian Klaver <adrian.kla...@aklaver.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2025 10:56 AM To: mark bradley <markbrad...@outlook.com> Cc: pgsql-general <pgsql-gene...@postgresql.org> Subject: Re: Duplicate Key Values On 3/11/25 07:28, mark bradley wrote: > An "interesting" effect of reindexing is that all the records that were > dups in the nodes table were deleted, both copies. I am trying to understand above. Was there at least one row of each node_id left? > > Also, all rows having node_id as a foreign key in other tables were > deleted, which means all rows in these tables were deleted. > > Fortunately these are not huge tables. I will reenter the data, make a > backup, and then try your further extended suggestions. > > Best regards, > Mark Brady > _amazon.com/author/markjbrady <https://amazon.com/author/markjbrady>_ -- Adrian Klaver adrian.kla...@aklaver.com