Re: ERROR: posting list tuple with 2 items cannot be split at offset 17

2023-02-09 Thread Peter Geoghegan
On Thu, Feb 9, 2023 at 3:55 PM Paul McGarry wrote: > Will the amcheck reliably identify all issues that may arise from a collation > change? Theoretically it might not. In practice I'd be very surprised if it ever failed to detect such an inconsistency. If you want to be extra careful, and can a

Re: ERROR: posting list tuple with 2 items cannot be split at offset 17

2023-02-09 Thread Paul McGarry
Hi Peter, Thanks for your input, I'm feeling more comfortable that I correctly understand the problem now and it's "just" a collation related issue. > I recommend running amcheck on all indexes, or at least all > possibly-affected text indexes. > > Will the amcheck reliably identify all issues t

Re: ERROR: posting list tuple with 2 items cannot be split at offset 17

2023-02-09 Thread Peter Geoghegan
On Wed, Feb 8, 2023 at 11:54 PM Paul McGarry wrote: > But if it is the problem, why did the update start working after I recreated > the other index? There is no reason why reindexing another index ought to have had that effect. The likely explanation is that subsequent updates used a successor

Re: ERROR: posting list tuple with 2 items cannot be split at offset 17

2023-02-09 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 2/8/23 23:53, Paul McGarry wrote: I have three databases, two of databases where I am experiencing the issue below. The first database was created from a dump in Feb 2022 (a few weeks after the time period for which I seem to have problematic indexes, maybe). The second database was then cl