"Paul Laughlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For the last 6 months or so we've had an intermittent issue while doing a > data import with a simple update statement. The fix that we've found for > this issue is to REINDEX TABLE <tablename>;
What PG version is this? Are you sure that the REINDEX actually does anything, as opposed to merely retrying the data import? I'm thinking you may be having problems with OID collisions after OID wraparound, which is something 8.1 should defend against but no earlier version does. What do you get from select count(distinct chunk_id) from pg_toast.pg_toast_635216540 ; regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster