I can send you the test data, but it's confidential so
I'll need to ask that you handle it carefully.  Can
you contact me off-list about this?  I tried to send
to your account directly but was bounced by your spam
filter from both this and another account.

Ben

--- Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ben Marklein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I'm trying to migrate from 7.2 to 7.4.1 via
> > pg_dump/pg_restore and have encountered a couple
> of
> > problems:
> 
> > 1)  Index creation on a table fails:
> 
> > db=# CREATE UNIQUE INDEX person_info_username_ix
> ON
> > person_info USING btree (username);
> > ERROR:  could not create unique index
> > DETAIL:  Table contains duplicated values.
> 
> > Of course, this index existed in the 7.2 DB, so it
> > seems odd that it should not be possible to
> recreate. 
> 
> That's fairly interesting.  It could be an issue of
> strings that are
> equal under your current locale but weren't equal
> before ... but why
> wouldn't the GROUP BY search find those duplicates
> too?  I agree this
> sounds like a bug.  Can you provide test data to
> duplicate the problem?
> 
> > 2) While importing I get: "ERROR:  invalid memory
> > alloc request size 1073741824".  I tracked this
> down
> > to a line with some non-ASCII characters.
> 
> I have been trying to reproduce a recent report of
> this, without
> success.  Again, a test case would be of great
> value.
> 
> Also, what is your platform exactly, what locale
> settings, etc?  Did
> you build Postgres yourself (with what config
> settings) or use an RPM
> (whose)?
> 
>                       regards, tom lane


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