On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Andrew Hammond <andrew.george.hamm...@gmail.com> writes: > > On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > >> Hmm, that's pretty interesting ... are there any nearby autovacuums of > >> pg_toast_2619? > > > Several, both before and after the error message: > > Well, it seems clear that somehow the vacuum deleted a toast tuple that > the other statement was about to fetch, but it's not clear how this > could be. The pg_statistic fetch must have come from the planner, which > should always be called with a transaction snapshot established, and > that ought to protect it against vacuum deleting anything that could be > visible to SnapshotNow. Weird. > > [ pokes around for a bit ... ] Hmm, can you say how the failing query > was submitted, exactly? I'm wondering if it came in via simple Query > (PQexec) or extended-query protocol (anything with parameters). > The command was sent from a python via django-1.2.1 using psycopg2-2.2.1 Andrew