I will try to make these tables logged and see if they withstand the test of time. Are crashes and unclean shutdowns logged anywhere? I would like to see why I might be getting them. I have not had to manually restart the database, if that were an indication of a crash.

-Gabriel

On 2013-03-13 14:02, Vasilis Ventirozos wrote:
an unlogged table will be truncated at database restart in case of a crash or unclean shutdown, could that be the case ?

Vasilis Ventirozos

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 7:36 PM, "Gabriel E. Sánchez Martínez" <gabrielesanc...@gmail.com <mailto:gabrielesanc...@gmail.com>> wrote:

    I have run into an annoying issue several times.  After
    successfully populating a table with the COPY command, letting the
    server run auto-vacuum analyze, and being able to query the table
    without any issues for several days, the table suddenly appears to
    be empty.  In pgAdmin I see a large estimated number of rows, as
    it should be, but any SELECT to that table returns no rows, and
    SELECT COUNT(*) returns 0.  If I run an ANALYZE on that table and
    refresh pgAdmin, the estimated number of rows is reset to 0.  It
    is as if someone had run TRUNCATE on the table, but I cannot find
    TRUNCATE or DELETE statements on the logs, and the only users with
    the privileges to do so (my colleague and I) have not executed
    such statements.  The rest of the users can only select and reference.

    I am running PostgreSQL 9.1.8 on Ubuntu 12.10 x86_64 server.  I
    have a master unlogged table with all the columns, no primary key,
    and no index.  This master_table has no data per se.  Then I have
    several partitions, created as follows:

    CREATE UNLOGGED TABLE partition_1 ()
    INHERITS (master_table)
    WITH (OIDS = FALSE);

    Each partition contains up to 20 million rows, and I have about 30
    partitions.

    I have three such sets of tables on the same database, and the
    issue has happened multiple times with two of the three sets of
    tables. Curiously, the one that has never been affected is a bit
    different: the master table contains a column id bigserial, which
    is a primary key.  Also, this table is logged.

    Has anyone run into similar issues in the past?  Could this be a bug?

    Thanks in advance.

    -Gabriel


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